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Creating Safe Communities
Neighbourhood Watch gives neighbours the tools to work together to prevent crime.
We help you to:
- Get to know your neighbours
- Recognize suspicious activity
- Report your suspicions
What would it take for you to take steps to deter criminal activity in your neighbourhood?
What would you do if you saw suspicious strangers, a robbery or knew about a possible drug house?
Neighbourhood Watch helps create neighbourhoods of people who know each other and look out for each other. Our role is simple; we provide useful information on how to deter crime, how to watch for crime and how to report your suspicions. To help organize local crime prevention, we divided Red Deer into areas that we then divided into a series of blocks or neighbourhoods that each have a map.
Do you know who belongs in your neighbourhood?
Become a Neighbourhood Watch block captain and receive an information package with your block map to record names and phone numbers. Each map has 10 to 20 homes on it. Block captains volunteer about four hours once a year to set up their block, meet their neighbours and deliver crime prevention information packages. Each year they update their block to include any new neighbours.
If a neighbour asks you to participate, display the Neighbourhood Watch sticker on your door and get to know who you lives around you so you can identify strangers.
Get to know your neighbours by hosting a block yard sale, barbeque or sporting event. Sometimes simple ways are best.
Can you look out for your neighbours and them for you?
Pick up flyers, shovel sidewalks when people are away or close a garage door your neighbour has left open. By helping each other you can make a safer community for everyone.
Volunteers don’t have to be home all the time. When you are home, work with other neighbours to deal with any suspicions you have.
Will you report suspicious activity when you see it?
If you see someone or something that’s suspicious, call the RCMP at 403-343-5575 and talk to your neighbours about your concerns. If you aren’t sure about the steps you can take to make your community safer, we have useful information to help you work with City of Red Deer bylaws, the RCMP and your neighbours.
The Neighbourhood Watch program is simple but effective. Getting to know each other makes our neighbourhoods friendlier and that makes them less appealing to criminals. For the most part, criminals are looking for crimes of opportunity.
Red Deer has over 1600 blocks. Many still need a block captain.
Become a block captain today and organize your area into a place that is safer for everyone. Call 403-346-4636 or e-mail nwatch@cirsonline.ca to learn more.
If you wish further information on any of the Community Policing initiatives in Red Deer, please visit the RCMP Contact page.
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