Neighborhood Watch Program
What is Neighborhood Watch?
Neighborhood Watch is a cooperative partnership between the Covington Police Department and you, the citizens of Covington and Newton County. In this partnership, the Community Outreach Unit will give you tips to help make your neighborhood safer. In turn, you will be our eyes and ears to let us know of suspicious and/or criminal activities.
Through Neighborhood Watch — we encourage neighbor participants to get to know each other and their routines so that any out of place activities can be observed,reported, and investigated.
Through Neighborhood Watch — we can teach participants techniques to reduce the risk of being victimized in their homes, in their vehicles, and in public places
Through Neighborhood Watch — we teach participants the importance of recognizing suspicious activities and sounds. We teach how to evaluate them and then how to properly report them.
Through Neighborhood Watch — we teach participants how to make their homes more secure. We show how to properly identify their property and how to look out for each other.
What Neighborhood Watch isn't…?
Neighborhood Watch is an important crime deterrent program, but is it NOT...
- A vigilante force working outside the normal procedures of law enforcement
- A certain guarantee that crime will not happen in your neighborhood
- A program designed for participants to undertake personal risk to deter crime
If you are interested in forming a Neighborhood Watch Program in your neighborhood – please feel free to email Captain W.G.Davis (Community Outreach) or call at 770-385-2125.