Neighborhood Watch
Neighborhood Watch is a program involving the joint efforts of the police and the community, designed to enhance security, heighten the community’s power of observation, and to encourage mutual assistance and concern among neighbors. Neighborhood Watch is not the formation of a neighborhood patrol group. Rather, it is a cooperative effort among citizens and the Medford Police Department. It is important to note that the program is not intended for civilians to stop criminal or suspicious activity, but to simply see it, hear it, or suspect it…. and REPORT IT TO THE POLICE!
The main objective of the Neighborhood Watch is to reduce the incidence of crime by:
•Increasing citizen awareness
•Encouraging all citizens to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in reporting crime.
•Development of a neighborhood network to disseminate information, primarily through an e-mail list.
The Medford Township Police utilizes a Neighborhood Watch e-mail information system to keep the community informed. Information frequently disseminated includes: recent crimes, criminal apprehensions, community alerts, special weather advisories and traffic conditions.
The Neighborhood Watch program has be instrumental in the identification and apprehension of numerous criminals in the past several years. The apprehensions are a directly result of the police and the community working together to keep Medford Township safe.
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