The Community Watch Administration Manual Third Edition

This manual is the complete blueprint to build a successful, long-lasting Community Watch or Neighborhood Watch program. It is designed for communities of all sizes. It will also enhance or even revitalize ongoing watch programs by providing useful ideas and proven methods to get people involved.

This manual is so complete, even a person with no crime prevention or management experience can start and maintain an effective Community Watch program.

As part of our research for the manual, we consulted dozens of law enforcement agencies to find out about their successful crime-watch programs. When crime was increasing nationwide, crime in these communities was decreasing, but it didn't go down by accident - it went down because of their effective crime prevention programs. These communities and many like them became the models for this Manual.

This powerful reference manual can cut years off the research necessary to start a program.

Sections Include

• Implementation: How to get started.
• Meetings: What to say and where to say it.
• Promotion & Publicity: How to get positive press coverage.
• Volunteers: Where to find and recruit the people who will run your program.
• Communications: How to effectively spread the word.
• Motivation: How to keep your program alive and thriving.
• Resource Development: How to get what you need.
• Programs: Teaches important topics (See panel to right).
• Evaluations: How to measure the effectiveness of your program.
• Planning: How to plan for success.
• Management: A complete management structure so everyone knows who does what.
• Supplies & Resources: Where to find what your program needs.
  

• Home Security
• Reporting Suspicious Activity
• Operation Identification
• Personal Safety
• Sexual Assault Prevention Program
• Child Safety Program
• Fraud and Con Prevention
• Vehicle Theft Prevention
• Block Home and McGruff House Programs
• Robbery Prevention
• Identity Theft Prevention
• Internet Safety for Parents
• Internet Safety for Children
• Rural Crime Prevention
• How to Tell if a Child is using Drugs
• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
• CERT
• Homeland Security
• Family Disaster Planning

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“I was so enthused by this book. It would make an excellent textbook for the crime prevention practitioner or criminal justice system.”

Sgt. Martin J. Jacobson, Training Coordinator, Stuart (FL) Police Department

“The [Community Watch] Program has been well received and supported in our area. As a result of the Community’s involvement and citizens’ calls, numerous crimes have been solved.”

Sgt. M.W. Bowers, Salida (CO) Police Department

"Your manual has provided a wealth of information in an organized, step-by-step, easy to read format."

Stephen M. Nihiser, Federal Protective Services

"Most useful tool I've seen for community policing. One of the best products available."

Daphine Levenson, Director - Gulf States Regional Community Policing Institute.