Imagine you are at home lounging on the couch when you hear police sirens. You pull the curtains back from the window and see two police cars next door. An officer is talking to your neighbor while another office is looking in the bushes.
You wonder what could have happened, and whether you are in [...]
Posts under ‘BPD District 5’
The Nosy and Safe Neighbor
Don’t give someone a reason to break into your car!
It seems to me I have seen a lot more reports recently about thefts from vehicles. For the most part this is a preventable crime. Lock your doors! Park in a well lit area! Don’t leave your purse, back pack, laptop, iPod, GPS, or anything of value sitting in plain view in the vehicle. If you [...]
Record number of parties for the National Night Out!
Thank you to all our National Night Out Party Hosts. We had 72 parties here in Bellevue. I drove around McGruff and Bucky Bear (Village Inn’s Mascot) and we made it to 12 parties and had a lot of fun. Several parties went all out and had Bounce Houses, snow cones, and even safety demonstrations. [...]
“Pig Out” for the Bellevue Police K9
This Saturday Swine Dining is hosting a fundraiser for the Bellevue Police K9. There will be “Dunk a Pig” (Dunk Tank), bounce house and T-shirts for sale. There will also be a pork eating contest amoung the some Police Officers. The hours of the fundraiser is from 10:30-3:00pm and the pork eating contest will start at [...]
Fireworks safety
There have already been some fires and injuries caused because of Fireworks this year. The National Fireworks safety website has some good information to keep you safe this Fourth of July. Go to http://www.fireworksafety.com/ for more information.
In Bellevue Fireworks are permissible from 10 days prior to the 4th of July up until midnight on the night [...]
Mailbox Baseball
Sunday morning I received the following email from one of the Neighborhood Watch Captains (she gave me permission to post it). It looks like we had a spree of mailboxes getting bashed Saturday night. Please follow her advice and stay vigilant, call the police if you hear anything at night. We would love to catch the [...]
Email Scam
This is a known email scam and I thought I’d put it out there. Whoever these people are their using the name of an American soldier, I guess in hopes to tug at someone’s heart strings. Wow, some people have no conscience!
Associate,
How are you doing my friend, great I guess… Now I know this [...]
One persons struggle with addiction….
This may be of interest to some of you. This was written during recovery and shows one addicts daily struggle to forgive themselves and their ongoing battle for life long sobriety…
What you don’t know or fail to see,is a hopeless disease that at anytime can take control of me.
I really don’t want to use,so I [...]
Tips to help prevent Identity Theaft!
I received an email from a friend of my with some great tips on preventing Identity Theaft, so I thought I would share them with you:
1. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put “Photo ID Required.”
2. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the [...]
Criminal Mischief in Heritage Hills
Last night in the Heritage Hills area several mailboxes got hit with a baseball bat. This is something that we don’t usually see when it is this cold out, but it is a wake up call that we still need to be vigilant. If you see a car driving slowly down your street and you don’t recognize it [...]