WELL NOT QUITE FREE; the Parish Council have kindly agreed to pay for them. Signs are an important part of any neighbourhood watch scheme. Recent figures for Cambridgeshire show that the risk of burglary is reduced to 1/8th of what it would have been, and other crime is also reduced. This is why many insurance companies give a reduction on your household premium if you are within a neighbourhood watch scheme. If you are within…
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Neighbourhood Watch – Update March 2017
Cambridgeshire Neighbourhood Watch is about local people working together to create safer, attractive and friendly places to live, places where crime is less likely to happen and people are less likely to turn to anti-social behaviour. There is no set Neighbourhood Watch Programme because each group is owned and run by its community. Every community has its own needs and Neighbourhood Watch groups are exceptionally well placed to meet them. After all, who knows what…
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Neighbourhood Watch isn’t busybodies twitching net curtains – it’s civic minded people keeping a watch out for the safe-keeping of their neighbours! Littleport Neighbourhood Watch was represented at the County AGM back in October when Lyn and Cathy Gibb-de Swarte and Kathy Ingram attended. Chair John Fuller welcomed all those attending at Police HQ Hinchingbrooke Park, Huntingdon. Police Commissioner Jason Ablewhite gave us his overview – and interestingly told us that Cambridgeshire is considered a…
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A little over two years ago an article in this magazine asked “Is Neighbourhood Watch in Littleport dead? Well not quite, but it is in a rather sorry state which is quite distressing as it used to be a thriving and dynamic organisation in Littleport.” Well, fortunately there has recently been a significant change with 5 new schemes started in the last few months which have brought approximately 150 households within the Neighbourhood Watch fold….
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