Chesterfield County Police Department

Crime Prevention

The Crime Prevention Section of the Support Services Division strives to provide a FIRST CHOICE community by educating citizens on how they may anticipate, recognize, and reduce crime. We are very proud of the fact we have developed programs that address all walks of life in our community. We are able to accomplish this goal through a variety of programs that we offer to citizens as well as businesses. Our Neighborhood Watch and Business Watch programs have been used as models for other jurisdictions. We address the needs of our mature citizens as well as the younger citizens. Our programs cover a wide range of topics including bicycle safety, rape prevention, work place violence prevention, and fraud prevention for seniors.

Listed below are some of the programs that we present. To learn more about these programs, please call (804)-318-8699.

Crime Prevention Programs

Auto Theft

How to protect your car from theft.

Business Security

Teaches physical, procedural and environmental security for businesses.

Business Watch

Teaches how to start and maintain a successful Business Watch.

Check and Credit Card Fraud

How to detect counterfeit, fraudulent, altered and forged checks and credit cards and how to recoup losses.

Commercial Robbery

How employees can prevent and react to a robbery.

Crime Reporting

Teaches citizens the reasons for and how to report crime and suspicious activity to the police.

Crime Prevention For Seniors

Educates senior citizens on crimes that they are most vulnerable to and how to prevent them.

Crime Prevention For The Physically Challenged

Deals with preventing crime for people with disabilities and special circumstances.

Defensive Driving

Teaches proper defensive driving techniques.

Domestic Violence

Teaches prevention, reporting an coping with spouse abuse and other family violence.

DUI Education

Teaches DUI laws and the effects of DUI.

Fraud For Seniors

Teaches how to prevent frauds specifically targeted toward the older population.

Home Security

Teaches residents how to properly protect their home from burglary, theft, vandalism, etc.

Home Security Assessments

A crime prevention officer visits your home and assesses your security and gives written recommendations to enhance it.

Neighborhood Watch

How to start and effectively maintain a Watch Program.

Office Theft and Security

How to protect your belongings and yourself from theft and crime.

Personal Safety

How to prevent personal crimes such as robbery and how to properly react if you are attacked.

Prowlers & Intruders

How to appropriately react to a prowler at your home or to an intruder in your home.

Quick Change Con Games

How to recognize and outsmart quick change artists.

Refund Fraud

Teaches how to develop procedures to prevent refund fraud and how to detect it.

Seat Belt Safety

Why seat belts should be used.

Shoplifting

Educates employees on techniques of prevention, what merchants can do to catch a shoplifter and shoplifting laws.

Telemarketing Fraud Prevention

How to recognize fraud in order to prevent become a victim of fraud.

Vacation Security

How to secure your home while away and how to avoid being victimized while vacationing.

Violence in the Workplace

Teaches how to reduce risk of violent acts in the workplace.

Weather Driving

Teaches proper techniques and precautions to take while driving.