Posts Tagged ‘Neighborhood Watch’

The 2010 Citizen’s Police Academy starts tonight.  We have a great schedule planned.  We will be hearing from Chief Stacey tonight on the History and Organization of the Bellevue Police Department and Lt. Elbert on Recruiting and Professional Standards.  Sam and Louie’s will also be providing Pizza and Salad for dinner this evening. 
Throughout the next [...]

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.  [...]

 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 [...]

I found and article through The Neighborhood Crime Maps Website  (http://crimeprevention.crimereports.com/) on the safety of your home.  The article was posted to their website by James Gunter Blogger/Manager of Social Media for the Neighborhood Crime Maps Website and was written by George Feder on March 31,2010. 
George Feder is a former master jewel thief and former America’s Most Wanted Correspondent. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Couldn’t resist sharing this with everyone- I saw this on WOWT6 last night. Its about an Omaha neighborhood, but this could have been anyone of our neighborhoods. This is what neighborhood watch is all about! A true success story! Neighbors looking out for neighbors and catching the bad guys in the act.
Here’s a link to [...]

I just read this on WOWT.com today and thought I’d share with everyone. I thought it had some useful information about burglaries & home security tips for neighbors to supplement Sgt. Jarvis’ post a couple months ago: http://www.wowt.com/news/misc/15607977.html
Also, here is a quick link to Sgt.Jarvis’ post:
http://bellevuepd.com/coppsblog/?p=282

by Sergeant Matt Jarvis
It takes a criminal about 11 seconds to get into your house.  All you have to do is make your house secure enough that the criminal will think entry will take longer than 11 seconds.  Sounds simple because it really is. Crime prevention strategies around the house.
  1.    Neighborhood Watch.  I know for [...]

Ok all you bloggers out there, the Bellevue Police Department has joined Facebook. In order to participate, you must first have a Facebook account (go to www.facebook.com) and be logged in. It’s easy and free to set up an account. Once you’re logged in, click on , or copy and paste in, the following web address: [...]