Whether you want to start a new watch in your area or join an existing one, your local Neighbourhood Watch Administrator is here to offer support and guidance and will help you through the process. Contact your local NHW Administrator.

As the Co-ordinator of Neighbourhood Watch, what will I need to do?

• Contact your local NHW Administrator who can help you contact individual households to arrange a meeting to discuss setting up a scheme.
• Set up and maintain and Neighbourhood Watch within the agreed area.
• Pass information to members, from the police, on crime in the area.
• Encourage members to inform police or Crimestoppers quickly of any criminal/suspicious incidents.
• Act as a link between the scheme, other co-ordinators, local police, local NHW Associations and the local authority.
• Circulate any newsletters, leaflets, property marking kits etc.

As a Neighbourhood Watch member, what will I be expected to do?

• Be alert and respond to what is going on in your neighbourhood, you will not be expected to patrol the streets, being vigilant doesn’t mean you have to be a vigilante!
• If you have the time, you could help to prepare newsletters or help organise meetings and events.
• You can take simple steps to avoid attracting criminals. For example, giving an elderly person who lives alone some help, pushing mail through a letterbox, removing milk bottles left on a doorstep, which might indicate that no-one is home.
• Look after your neighbour’s house when they are away. See Keyholder Responsibilities.