Chesterfield County Police Department

Police Neighborhood Watch Reports

June 2008

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National Night Out

August 5th, 2008 6 - 10 pm
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Due by July 20th

The message is coming from many directions, both locally and nationally, that the real solutions to our issues of safety and quality of life lie in community standards, cooperation and action. We must build, rebuild and maintain a sense of ownership and responsibility for our community across all lines, which could otherwise divide us, be they economic, racial, cultural or religious. National Night Out is a perfect opportunity to meet new neighbors, reacquaint with old neighbors, recommit to working together and celebrate what we’ve done together in the past year. It’s a celebration of our power as neighbors!

Included in this packet are the following items that will assist you in organizing a block party or other event:

INFORMATION ABOUT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT

Background information about the 25th Annual National Night Out on a national scale. This is a major eventwhen millions of concerned citizens pull together to get the word out that crime will not and cannot be tolerated!

REGISTRATION FORM - Completion of this form formally registers your event with the Chesterfield County Police Department. All block party or event registrations must be received no later than July 20. Early registration of your block party/event is strongly encouraged.

TIPS FOR PLANNING A BLOCK PARTY - Ideas for planning a block party or similar event. We also will provide you with examples of what has been done in prior years. Your National Night Out can be very simple, or as elaborate as you want to make it. The key,as always, must be on connections between neighbors of all ages.

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT PARTY IDEAS

STEPS FOR PLANNING A BLOCK PARTY

STEP 1: Solicit help from your neighbors and form a committee. You will find that as a group, you will be able to generate some great ideas as to what type of event to plan. Your Block Captains may make excellent committee members.

STEP 2: As the committee chairperson, assign tasks to your committee members. Examples of tasks might include:

• Selecting an event location (clubhouse, private home, cul-de-sac, vacant lot, youth center, church, etc.)
• Advertising your event (flyers, newsletters, public meetings)
• Refreshments
• Setup and cleanup
• Entertainment or speaker(s)

STEP 3: Plan a follow-up meeting to discuss your communities’ progress.

STEP 4: Register your block party or event with the police department. (See Registration Form)

STEP 5: Talk up your event with your neighbors, homeowners/civic association, local businesses, places of worship, friends

STEP 6: Watch it all come together and enjoy your 25th Annual National Night Out!

REMEMBER: National Night Out is from 6:00 until 10:00pm on Tuesday, August 5th

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT

Last year National Night Out campaign involved citizens, law-enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials from 10,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and U.S. military bases worldwide. In all, 34 million people participated in the National Night Out 2006. The upcoming 25th Annual National Night Out is expected to be the largest ever!

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT is designed to:

1. Heighten Crime awareness and drug -prevention
2. Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime programs;
3. Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships;
4. Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.

Along with the traditional display of outdoor lights and front-porch vigils, cities, counties, Towns and neighborhoods celebrate National Night Out with a variety of activities. Included in this packet are some suggestions of ways neighborhoods have celebrated in the past.

National Night Out has proven to be an effective, inexpensive and enjoyable way to promote neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships in our fight for a safer nation. Plus, the benefits your neighborhood will derive from National Night Out will most certainly extend well beyond one night.

Last year in Chesterfield County, more than 110 neighborhoods celebrated the fight against crime by organizing block parties or other neighborhood events.

START MAKING YOUR PLANS NOW FOR . . .
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
Tuesday, AUG. 5th.

Neighborhood Watch – Police Calls for Service Information on the Chesterfield County Web Page

In the previous months you have been receiving the Police calls for service summary with your Neighborhood Watch newsletter. I am very excited to announce that the calls for service will now be able to be viewed by all citizens on the Chesterfield County web page. The neighborhoods will be in alphabetical order.

Since the information is available on the county web page you will not be receiving the crime summaries with your newsletters. Please forward this information to your community for all to review.

This Neighborhood Watch – Police Calls for Service Information public access page allows County residents and the public to view calls for service data pertaining to police responses within a County neighborhood having an active Neighborhood Watch program. A call for service is a call from the public requesting police, fire, or rescue emergency or non-emergency response. Please note these pages only depict calls for service assigned to police units. Not all calls for services are displayed on this report as certain types of calls are excluded from public disclosure.

To address issues of privacy, no name information is displayed. Similarly, each individual listing displays the call address only to the nearest hundred block. For example, if a call for service originated at 10031 Iron Bridge Road this report would display the location as 10000 Iron Bridge Road.

Because this data is preliminary and may change upon investigation, the Chesterfield County Police Department gives no guarantee as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or correct sequencing of the information. Additionally, since the information is evolving, it cannot be used for comparisons over time. The Chesterfield County Police Department is not responsible for any error or omission, or for the use of, or the results obtained from the use of this information.
Please realize that the existence of a record of a call for service to any address may not necessarily be indicative of any violation of law. Often times police are dispatched to an address for reasons unrelated to unlawful conduct. Additionally, you should not draw a negative inference simply because a disposition may be listed as “offense report” or “arrest made.” It is possible that these dispositions were unrelated to the initial call and may have resulted from completely independent circumstances not involving the situation. We caution you to keep this in mind when considering the attached information.
If your neighborhood does not have an active Neighborhood Watch program and you would like to discuss starting such a program, please contact Master Police Officer Bryan Miltenberger of our Support Services Division at 674-7006 or visit him at 2730 Hicks Road, Richmond, Virginia 23235.

View calls for service within neighborhoods having a Neighborhood Watch Program

View the list of terms used in these report

Specific calls excluded from public viewing: mental subject, overdose, rape, search warrant, sex offense, suicide, terrorist incident, vehicle repossession.