How To Start A

Neighborhood Watch Program

Any interested citizen may establish a Neighborhood Watch

Program on his/her street, by taking the following steps:

1.

Visit your neighbors and tell them you are interested in discouraging crime

in your neighborhood.  Ask for their support and involvement, and set a date

for a Neighborhood Watch meeting.

2.

Contact the Mason Police Department Crime Prevention Officer, Detective

Michael Downey, at 229-8560, and request that a Mason Police Department

representative attend the Neighborhood Watch meeting.

3.

Distribute letters from the Mason Police Department inviting your neighbors to

attend the Neighborhood Watch meeting.

4.

At the meeting, neighbors will be encouraged to share their name, address

and phone number for use in a neighborhood map to be made up and distributed

to each household represented.

5.

Neighbors will receive a Neighborhood Watch manual which explains how to

shape an individual watch program, and what help you will receive from the

Mason Police Department.

6.

Neighborhood Watch members receive regular communications from the Mason

Police Department via crime alerts, telephone information, and followup meetings.

Members are encouraged to stay in touch with the Mason Police Department.

The Mason Police Department provides assistance to those

wishing to start a Neighborhood Watch Program, free of charge.

Any neighborhood in Mason, including those with apartments,

mobile homes, and businesses, can start a Neighborhood

Watch Program.