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April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month
Do not text or use your phone while driving.
Silence or turn off your phone, so you are not tempted.
You could be seriously hurt or killed,
when you are not paying attention.
We care and be safe
Crime Prevention Committee
San Bruno Police Department
650-616-7100
Abril es el mes de Conducir sin Distraccion
No mande texto o utilize el telefono mientras conduce.
Silensiar o Apagar su telefono para que no tenga tentasion.
Usted podria resultar gravemente herido o morir
Cuando no esta prestando atencion.
Nos importa su seguridad
Comite De La Prevencion Contra el Delito
Departamento de la Policia de San Bruno
650-616-7100
The San Bruno Citizens Crime
Prevention Committee meets the 2nd Thursday monthly at 7:00 p.m., currently via
ZOOM. The Public is welcome to attend.
The agenda for the upcoming
meeting should be posted on the committee web page
https://www.sanbruno.ca.gov/538/Crime-Prevention-Committee
Approved minutes for previous
meetings should also be posted here.
The #1 task of the
committee is to work to increase the number of Neighborhood Watch blocks in San
Bruno.
QUESTION: Why should San Bruno citizens consider
starting a Neighborhood Watch along their block?
ANSWERS:
1. The Neighborhood Watch Program is a highly successful effort
that has been in existence for more than thirty years in cities and counties
across America. It provides a unique infrastructure that brings together local
officials, law enforcement, and citizens to work together to protect our
communities.
2. Neighbors for decades have banded together to create
Neighborhood Watch programs. They understand that the ACTIVE participation of
neighborhood residents is a critical element in community safety - not through
vigilantism, but simply through a willingness to look out for suspicious activity in their
neighborhood, and report that activity directly to law enforcement and to each
other. In
doing so, residents take a major step toward reclaiming high-crime
neighborhoods, as well as making people throughout a community feel more secure
and less fearful.
3. Many neighborhoods already have established Neighborhood Watch
programs that are vibrant and effective. For those that do not, the San Bruno
Police Department is prepared to work with residents to participate in this
important community-based effort on behalf of their friends and neighbors. When
you help your neighbors, you help your community.
4. Steps To Start YOUR NHW Block:
5. Distribute the San Bruno Citizens’ Crime
Prevention NHW brochure to those residents of a block so that each one can
understand what NHW is all about and what they would be committing to do, if
they become a member of the NHW block.
The NHW unit should be a block.
All members of a neighborhood block should be able to SEE their full
block. This way all neighbors become
more EYES & EARS along their single block, and when they see and or hear
something they feel is out of place and or illegal or in need of EMERGENCY or
Police involvement, THEY will immediately
call either 911 or 650-616-7100 and report it.
When most of the residents along a single block agree they will
participate, a member of the San Bruno Police Department will attend an
introductory meeting with the residents to answer questions and assist them in
selecting their BLOCK Captain. ALL
residents are directed to call 911 or 650-616-7100 DIRECTLY
and not call their block captain and ask him/her to report their
observation. The person calling the San
Bruno Police Department will usually have answers to questions asked by the San
Bruno Police Department that the block captain may not be able to answer.
6. BOTTOM LINE:
Residents actively participating in a Neighborhood Watch Block work
towards assisting San Bruno EMERGENCY personnel to make their block just a
little SAFER.
7. EVERYONE
WINS – Start YOUR Block
To
request a citizens crime prevention committee member to contact you and answer
your questions and or help you and your neighbors work to start your
Neighborhood Watch Block, you should call the San Bruno Police Department
non-emergency number 650-616-7100 and ask to leave your name and contact number
with the San Bruno Police officer overseeing the San Bruno Citizens’ Crime
prevention committee. Then a committee member will call you.