Neighbourhood Watch
Neighbourhood Watch
Neighbourhood Watch
The National Our Watch organisation supported by the Home Office, explains the benefits of Neighbourhood Watch with the following statement:
"People join Neighbourhood Watch to make the areas where they live safe, friendly and pleasant places to be - and it works.
The old stereotype of the Neighbourhood Watch curtain twitcher is wrong for one very simple reason: it implies fear. Neighbourhood Watch is about the opposite: making sure that no one has to feel afraid, vulnerable or isolated in the place where they live. It's about people looking out for each other, crossing barriers of age, race and class to create real communities that benefit everyone.
To explode another myth, Neighbourhood Watch groups are owned and run by the people of their communities, not the police. So the approach you take is entirely up to you. The most impressive Neighbourhood Watch achievements result from members looking closely at the needs of their communities and meeting them with innovative and creative thinking."
A link to the National Organisation which shares practice from around the UK, can be found at the bottom of every page on the Sussex Police website, in the form of the NHW logo.
Links to recognised Sussex based Associations including the umbrella Association, the Sussex NHW Federation can be found on our Neighbourhood Watch page.