Help Create a Safer Community

By setting up a Neighborhood Crime Watch training, your community will join other neighborhoods who are helping reduce crime in your community.

What is a Neighborhood Crime Watch?

• A partnership between the community and the police department to help reduce crime and improve the quality of life in neighborhoods.
• A group of neighbors addressing issues that concern the entire community.
• Neighbors are talking to each other, building a sense of community and place.

Neighborhood Crime Watch Basics

• All neighbors are invited to participate in the group.
• Members should be ready to learn how to create a safer community. The community can include homes, businesses, schools, and public spaces.
• All neighbors will report any suspicious activity to the police.
• Neighborhood Crime Watch members are not vigilantes. They are extra eyes and ears for their neighbors and the police department.

Neighborhood Crime Watch Signs

• Most neighborhoods need about 5-7 signs depending on the number of entrances and the overall size of the neighborhood.
• Signs are placed in locations recommended by your Community Interaction Officer (CIO).
• The City installs the signs for free on existing light and utility poles.
• The signs are usually installed 2-3 weeks after they are ordered.

Questions?

Contact your KCPD Community Interaction Officer to set up a meeting time and location.