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Meads Ward Neighbourhood Watch March 2010 |
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Neighbourhood Watch – Meads Ward This update is the first for 2010 from your Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator for Meads Ward. With help since my last report I have been able to recruit two new NW Coordinators. The position now is 70 Coordinators covering some 2025 residences. I look forward to hearing of others that I may contact to further increase the NW Coordinators in the Meads Ward. It is not an arduous task. The main work involves the delivery of the quarterly NW Newsletter to each residence in the scheme you are responsible for. Within the Meads Ward, the nearer to the Town the residences are, the harder it becomes to find people who are willing to volunteer to become a Coordinator. So I would welcome your help. Meantime, take a look at the following: THINGS NOT TO DO Don’t open your door, particularly after dark, until you know who is there. Get them to identify themselves. Use a door chain. (“Lifeline” users must leave the chain OFF except when opening the door) Don’t give any stranger who calls at your door permission to do work on your garden or house and DON’T agree to pay them. Should they become threatening call the Police immediately. Don’t allow any strangers into your home, unless you have made a prior appointment with them. Don’t agree to donate money to any charity, via your Bank or Credit Card if asked to do so by an unknown caller to your home. Reputable charities do not operate this way. Don’t give any of your Bank or Credit Card details to any telephone caller under ANY circumstances. Your Bank and Card issuer will NEVER ask you to confirm account details over the phone. Don’t send money to any telephone caller who says that you have won a prize. YOU HAVE NOT AND IT IS A SCAM. Money sent will be lost. Don’t return any telephone calls to numbers that you do not recognise, they may be “Prime Rate” numbers that will be very costly to you. Don’t go away from home after dark without leaving a light on or a radio playing. Time switches are available that will switch a light/radio on and off. Arranging for a neighbour or friend to close your curtains, before dark in the evening, makes the home look occupied. Don’t put valuable flower pots/containers or ornaments/furniture in your front garden, unless they can be secured. Hanging baskets frequently get stolen. Tie them to their support with binding wire. THINGS TO DO Do get together with neighbours to “keep an eye” on each other’s homes and cars. Do display a police sign, on your front door, stating that you do not want casual callers. NW can supply these signs. Contact your local rep. Do destroy, by shredding or tearing into small pieces, all old Bank Statements, Credit Card receipts and other papers that contain your name. address and reference or account numbers, before discarding them. Should this information fall into the wrong hands it can be misused to your detriment? Do make sure that your garden shed and garage are securely locked. Consider fixing a shed alarm. Do lock your rear doors and windows, when working in the front garden and visa versa. Intruders will climb your fences if they see an opportunity, while you are busy working. Do consider fixing trellis to extend a fence that can be accessed via a rear or side pathway. Potential intruders do not like climbing over flimsy trellis, which may break. Do always lock your car, even if you only leave it for a moment. Do stop unwanted telephone sales calla by registering with the “Telephone Preference Service (TPS)”. Telephone : 0845 070 0707. It only takes a few minutes and it is free and it does work. PLEASE PRINT THIS LIST TO REMIND YOU OF THE SECURITY TIPS I would be pleased to hear from you either by telephone on: 647729 or email: roy.d.peacock@btinternet.com and thank you for helping to make Eastbourne, Meads Ward a pleasant and safe community. Meantime, please remember to call 999 in the case of an emergency OR an incident occurring, And, 0845 60 70 999 to report incidents and get a report reference. It is these reports that the Police use to determine how their resources are best deployed to overcome community problems. Roy Peacock Neighbourhood Watch – Meads Ward 2009 This is an update by the Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator for Meads Ward. Also it is an invitation for you to help increase the NW schemes and gives the approach I would like you to take. Some of you may recall that we, the Eastbourne Neighbourhood Watch Association were challenged by the then local Police Commander at our 2007 AGM to increase our NW Coordinators by 50% in 2 years. The ten Ward Coordinators have worked assiduously helping each other and have made good progress. Our NW Coordinators have increased from 213 to 279 over the last 21 months and look on target for 300 by the end of 2009. The residences covered have increased from around 6000 to some 8500. However, there are some 44,000 residences in the Eastbourne boundary that could be involved. You’ll appreciate that collectively we have not met the target. But, Police statistics show that as we add more schemes crime is falling, not of course all due to us. Now with your help I would like to increase these numbers even more over the months ahead and continue to help with the improvement in our community and local neighbourhoods. As for the Meads Ward, I took over from Hetty Pitttendrigh who many of you will know, in November 2005. There were then 35 NW Coordinators for just over 1000 residences. The position now is 66 Coordinators covering some 1900 residences. My approach to introducing new schemes has been to start from the Downs periphery for Meads Ward and move towards the Town centre. The nearer I get to the Town the harder it becomes for me to find people who are willing to volunteer to become a Coordinator. So, now to how you might be able to help. I would like you please to review the list of roads below for the Meads Ward in which we would like to start NW Schemes. Hopefully, you’ll be able to identify whether you know of any contacts living in any of them, or for that matter any other road in Meads, or Eastbourne, that you or I could approach about becoming a Coordinator and starting a scheme. Your contacts could be family, friends, colleagues from work, clubs, gym, or any other affiliations. I would be pleased to hear from you either by telephone on: 647729 or email: roy.d.peacock@btinternet.com and thank you for helping to make Eastbourne, Meads Ward a pleasant and safe community. Meantime, please remember to call 999 in the case of an emergency OR an incident occurring, And, 0845 60 70 999 to report incidents and get a report reference. It is these reports that the Police use to determine how their resources are best deployed to overcome community problems. Roy Peacock Meads Ward Bath Road Burlington Place Buxton Road Calverley Road Camden Road Lower) Carlisle Road Chatsfield Gardens Chesterfield Road Cliff Road College Road Cornfield Lane Derwent Road Devonshire Place Lushington Road Furness Road Hardwick Road Hartington Place Howard Square Hyde Gardens Hyde Road Ivy Terrace Jevington Gardens Lower) Meads Road South Cliff Trinity Place Trinity Trees West Terrace York Road | |
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Email the Meads Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator roy.d.peacock@btinternet.com Or telephone 01323 647729 For more information please use the links below www.eastbourne.gov.uk/ www.eastbourne.gov.uk/ www.meadsvillage.com | |