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Welcome to the Swedish Neighbourhood Watch and global forum for Neighbourhood Watch world wide since 4. April 2000. Neighbourhood Watch got a history that goes way back. It first started in the USA in appr. 1968, but studies on crimeprevention similar to Neighbourhood Watch can be traced to years much earlier than that.
Are you active in a Neighbourhood Watch scheme? Or don't you know anything about Neighbourhood Watch? Either way this is the place for you to get the information you need to learn more, or to work with Neighbourhood Watch.
In Sweden Neighbourhood Watch is called Grannsamverkan. Translation: "grann" (granne) is the same as neighbour, and "samverkan" is the same as collaboration. So Grannsamverkan = Neighbour Collaboration.
Neighbourhood Watch is crime preventing at it's best. Neighbourhood Watch means that neighbours in a neighbourhood joins and collaborates to prevent crime. To prevent crime meens to take steps to decrease the number of crimes, increase the risk for the criminals to get arrested, and to prevent young people from getting involved in criminal acts.
Neighbourhood Watch contains 3 steps:
Those three steps should be performed in this order.
- Collaboration against accidents, crime and damage, and marking, photographing and registering of property.
- Locks and protection
- Alarm
What is Neighbourhood Watch?
There are many ideas floating around about NW. Some are wrong. Do you know the truth?
Neighbourhood Watch is:
Neighbours in a neighbourhood / industrial neighbourhood joins to prevent crime. Neighbours taking action by surveillance, marking of belongings, reporting criminal acts to the police, and witness in case of a crime or accident. Neighbourhood Watch is run in collaboration with the police, insurance companies, property owners, local crime prevention counsil and the habitants of a community. Sometimes other crime prevention organisaitons co-work with the Neighbourhood Watch.
Neighbourhood Watch is not:
Neighbourhood Watch is not a citizen vigilance commitee. It is the police job to arrest and deal with criminals in action.
Decreases crime:
Using Neighbourhood Watch you can decrease crime in your neighbourhood with as much as 40 - 60 %.
Sir Robert Peel, The Founder of Modern Policing
The Founder of Modern Policing, Sir Robert Peel born in England (1788-1850) said it best in 1829.
"The police are the public and the public are the police. The police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
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