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My Neighbourhood Watch - Issue 1 - June 18th 2008
WE HAVE LIFT-OFF!
This week marks the dawn of a new age of Neighbourhood Watch communication.
The Neighbourhood and Home Watch network is launched across the nation with a brief to keep an eye on crime and crime fighting on our home front.
With the backing of the police and Home Office we will keep you up to speed on developments both locally and nationally via a constantly-updated website and regular newletters.
Our launch has been deliberately timed to coincide with 2008's Neighbourhood and Home Watch Week which runs from June 16.
Here's Marion Lewis, chair of Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network (England and Wales) to explain the background to the Week:
"June 16th 2008 is the start of the Neighbourhood & Home Watch Week across England & Wales. On that day the new representative body the Neighbourhood & Home Watch Network, will be launching the new official Neighbourhood & Home Watch website for ALL Watch members across England & Wales.
This new website will focus on the traditional roles of the Watch movement and it will also provide a national platform from which we can focus on taking Neighbourhood and Home Watch and the wider Watch movement onto its next challenge.
This challenge is for the Watch movement to embrace the Neighbourhood Policing agenda and continue to provide the Police with a ready made structure with which to develop the local consultation, engagement and problem solving required to deliver not only crime prevention but public reassurance.
Marion Lewis
Chair – NHWN
Neighbourhood & Homewatch Network (England & Wales)"
What is the "Neighbourhood & Home Watch Network"?
Neighbourhood & Home Watch Network (NHWN) is the name for the recently established group of Regional Neighbourhood & Home Watch representatives meeting at national level from across England & Wales. The groups’ Terms of Reference may be found elsewhere on the site, but readers may be interested to hear how the group came to be.
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LAUNCH OF NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH WEEK AND NEW WEBSITE
Doorstep crime, anti-social behaviour and engaging young people will be the key areas of focus for the second national Neighbourhood Watch Week.
On Monday, Vernon Coaker launched a brand new Neighbourhood Watch website and a volunteers’ toolkit, jointly funded by the Home Office and Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).
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Justice system 'must change'
Major changes are needed to restore public confidence in the criminal justice system in England and Wales, a year-long review has concluded.
Chair of NHWN Marion Lewis was at Downing Street yesterday, 17th June and met the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary to discuss the views of Neighbourhood Watch members from across the country who were invited to ‘have their say’ and to give their opinions on the criminal justice system and contribute towards a Cabinet Office review written by the government's crime and communities adviser Louise Casey.
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HAND TO MOUTH
So many neighbours don't talk to each other in the modern era that they probably need a helping hand. Step forward the Harborough District Community Safety Partnership in Leicestershire.
To mark the end of National Neighbourhood Watch Week they have organised an attempt on the title of the Japanese holders of the Guinness Book of Records' Longest Handshake In The World. It's a bid to get neighbours talking to each other in order to improve their safety. And of course get into the record book.
The attempt will need at least at least 100 local people over the age of 18 to take part. Lend a hand by being at Welland Park, Market Harborough at 3pm on Saturday June 21.
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Outstanding Service
One of the driving forces behind the new website and newsletter, Dennis Cooper of Angel Business Communications, has just received an award for Outstanding Services to Neighbourhood Watch from Hertfordshire Police Authority.
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