United Neighborhood Crime and Improvement Watch, Inc.

U.N.C.I.W., Inc.

Beckley, West Virginia

What is Neighborhood Crime Watch?

The Neighborhood Watch Program is a program that helps the Police Department. It is designed to have residents keep an eye on each others property and reporting anything suspicious. The program is primarily designed for residential areas. Residents by their participation make it more difficult for the criminal element to operate making our neighborhoods a safer place to live.

The Neighborhood Crime Watch program is one of the most effective and least costly ways of reducing and/or preventing residential property crimes.

It is a citizen involvement, neighborhood and community based effort designed to assist citizens and the police in reducing crime and increasing an overall sense of peace, safety and security in the neighborhood.

The program’s success is hinged in establishing improved communications between neighbors and achieving and sustaining an appropriate level of neighbor involvement to a point where the neighbors realize a reduction and/or achieves prevention of burglaries and other property crimes.

It is a program of neighbors watching out for each other. It uses simple techniques to DETER, DELAY, and DETECT crime. It is designed to enlist the active participation of citizens, in cooperation with the police, to reduce crime and improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods.

It is becoming acquainted with your neighbors. It is working together to identify and solve problems in your area of the community. It is helping the police by being aware of and reporting any unusual activities as they occur. You know best what is "normal" activity in your neighborhood. It is the implementation of crime prevention techniques to enhance home security. It is NOT a vigilante group focused on apprehending someone, This is the police departments job! It is putting your neighbors’ back in neighborhoods.

WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME WATCH?

1.To increase citizen awareness of the crime of burglary and other property crimes prevalent to neighborhoods including theft and vandalism.

2.To train citizens in various safety and residential security strategies to make their neighborhood and homes more secure.

3.To develop a neighborhood action program where neighbors help watch each other’s residences and report suspicious persons and activities in their neighborhoods to the Police Departments.

4.To encourage all citizens to cooperate with the Police Departments in reporting crime.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

United Neighborhood Crime and Improvement Watch, Inc. has no members with the last names of Pryor or Christian. Anyone with theses names claiming to be a member of the UNCIW is committing fraud.

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