Starting a Neighborhood Watch Group

Contact the public safety office at 661/267-5181. The office will send you a packet of information to help you get started.

After you review your packet, canvass your neighborhood for interest. It is best to start with the homes in your immediate neighborhood to start your Neighborhood Watch group. Distribute the provided questionnaires and ask that they be returned to you within one week. Once you get the questionnaires back, return them to our office.

Ask your neighbors about convenient dates to schedule your first Neighborhood Watch meeting. Once you have a few dates selected, contact the public safety office to schedule your meeting. The public safety office needs at least three weeks notice to schedule a meeting.

Once you schedule your meeting with the public safety office, you will be provided with a flyer announcing the meeting.

If possible, meet in the home of a neighbor to foster an informal, comfortable atmosphere. If no one wants to host the meeting in their home, contact a local church or school and see if they will offer space for a meeting.

Remind everyone of the meeting date as it approaches (two to three days before).

Orientation meeting topics include:

Crime prevention programs offered by the public safety office and Sheriff's Department
Neighborhood Watch program overview
How to obtain Neighborhood Watch signs
How citizens can become the Sheriffs Department's "eyes and ears"
How to report a crime

Additional meetings can be scheduled on a variety of different topics.

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