NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH COORDINATOR’S RESPONSIBILITY

The person selected as a Neighborhood Watch Coordinator should expend a reasonable amount of time to make this program effective.

The following are the typical Neighborhood Coordinators responsibilities:

Organize and arrange Neighborhood Watch meetings with neighbors (allow neighbors to share the responsibility for holding meetings)

Attend educational and community zone meetings with a member of their Neighborhood Watch group, if possible, or send Watch members if unable to attend.

Develop and maintain a map and master list of all members of their Neighborhood Watch group.

Distribute information to Neighborhood Watch members – Crime Bulletin, Newsletter, pamphlets and stickers.

Keep in contact with your Watch members so they are aware of any neighborhood problems such as burglaries and therefore can alert others.

Rotate attendance at educational meetings among members of your Neighborhood Watch group.
Bring information back from educational meetings to inform neighbors who are unable to attend.

Serve as a liaison between law enforcement, other government agencies and your neighbors.

Understand and recognize suspicious activity that should be reported to the Police Department.

To have an understanding of Sheriff’s Department dispatch procedures and to know what Division of the Sheriff’s Department to contact for a particular problem.

To inform neighbors of responsibilities of a Neighborhood Coordinator – What he or she can and cannot do.

Inform your Crime Prevention Officer if your home telephone number should change, if you are planning to move from the area of if a new coordinator is elected.