CITIZEN'S CRIME WATCH (CCW) is the eyes and ears

Citizen's Crime Watch is the telephone repairman, the newspaper-boy, the postman, the elevator operator, he professional, the secretary, the housewife, the merchant, the shopper, the anonymous person who sees, but it not seen and who knows what to do when he or she sees something suspicious.

Citizen's Crime Watch is a Countywide program that operates most effectively at the neighborhood level. It presents the unpaid "eyes and ears" of the police department, telephoning the police at the first hint of suspicious incidents.

All a person needs to join the Citizen's Crime watch is a concern for their neighbors, and willingness to give some time to learn how to be effective and to participate in a continuing organized effort to stop crime before it starts. If you have the motivation to want to make your neighborhood safer, you should join Citizen's Crime Watch today.

In many communities where there is a strong Citizen's Crime Watch participation, where homes display a Citizen's Crime Watch decal and where signs are displayed on street corners, crime has stopped.

A burglar, shortly after being arrested, remarked to the police that the neighborhoods that displayed the Citizen's Crime Watch signs made him nervous, thus he avoided those areas.