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October 2002 Neighbourhood Watch News Letter Bridle Estate (NHW66)

Community Safety Month, About Neighbourhood Watch, Smoke Detectors, Police Crime Report.

By Malcolm Lawrence - 7th October 2002 - Back to News

Neighbourhood Watch Inc. No. A0037920V

• Neighbourhood Watch Area LTB1, Bridle Estate.

Area Coordinators Carmen Cook 5134 1920, Val. Bartholomeusz 5133 9685.

Next Meeting

When: Monday 21^st of October 2002.

Time: 7.15pm to 8.30pm,

Where: Salvation Army Hall,

Bridle Road, Morwell.

Community Safety Month, 1 — 28 October 2002.

Crime Prevention Project Officer Dale Simmonds will be at our October meeting to discuss your safety issues. The Safer Gippsland Project has been established to assist council in addressing local crime prevention and community safety issues. The basic theme of safer design is about looking how the physical design and layout of our neighbourhoods can affect the levels of crime and fear within our communities. As part of the Safer Gippsland Project, two training sessions in Safer Design guidelines and principles will be given by Dale Simmonds. The sessions will be held on Thurs. 7th Nov. 2002 and Thurs. 14th Nov. 2002 both will run from am to 4pm, at the Council Chambers cnr. Hazelwood Rd. / Anne St. Morwell. All interested people should ring Dale on 5173 1594

Neighbourhood Watch :

Perhaps you think that Neighbourhood Watch is a totally passive program. Just a process of waiting for some predator to come along to break into your house, and to purloin your belongings. Perhaps it is, if that is how you approach it.

But it doesn’t need to be. Neighbourhood Watch isn’t about relying totally on others to do something to protect you from the slings and arrows of real life. It is about the community at large being proactive, in looking after itself and its members. And it needs all of us to be in the team to make it effective.

Here are some of the things that Neighbourhood Watch members can do to make a positive contribution to community welfare:

· Be always aware of the need to prevent crime happening in the first place.

· Make your home secure.

· Stay alert and report anything suspicious to the police.

· Support vulnerable people, such as the elderly, and help them to avoid becoming victims.

· Improve the environment to give people a sense of pride in our neighbourhood and discourage vandalism.

· Mark your property to put off thieves and enable stolen property to be returned.

· Reduce the fear of crime by being visibly active.

There’s a lot Neighbourhood Watch can do to make a real difference to the area where we live, and in the final analysis, We are Neighbourhood Watch.

DO REMEMBER IN ANY EMERGENCY WHEN YOU NEED THE POLICE, AMBULANCE OR FIRE BRIGADE DIAL 000. ASK THE OPERATOR FOR THE SERVICE YOU REQUIRE, YOU WILL BE SWITCHED THROUGH IMMEDIATELY.

For queries about Neighbourhood Watch ring S/C Brendan Clifford on 5132 2155.

Smoke Detectors:

Daylight saving starts at the end of this month, when you change your clocks change your smoke detector batteries at the same time if they have been in for a year. Scratch the date on the new batteries when you install them.

Police Crime Report for NHW Area LTB1 Bridle Estate September 2002.

Due to privacy considerations NOT ALL offences for this area are listed

• 25/8/2002 Gillie Crescent Property damage.
• 19/9/2002 Chestnut Avenue Theft at a house
• 31/8/2002 Cherry Crescent Burglary at a house after forced entry.
• 1/9/2002 Blackwood Place Forced entry and burglary at a house.
• 1/9/2002 Waratah Drive Forced entry and burglary at a house.
• 2/9/2002 Cherry Crescent Burglary at a house after forced entry.
• 3/9/2002 Ensay Court Burglary at an unlocked shed.
• 3/9/2002 Wyung Drive Burglary at a house, forced entry.
• 4/9/2002 The Avenue Property damage to a milk bar.
• 6/9/2002 Lang Court Burglary and property damage at a house.
• 6/9/2002 Wyung Drive Burglary and property damage at a house.
• 9/9/2002 Bridle Road Forced entry and burglary at a house.
• 9/9/2002 Bulga Court Burglary and property at a house.
• 15/9/2002 The Boulevard Burglary at an unlocked garage.
• 15/9/2002 Bridle Road Forced entry and burglary at a house.
• 19/9/2002 Chestnut Avenue Theft at a house.
• 19/9/2002 Chestnut Avenue Property damage to a house.
• 11/9/2002 Waratah Drive Forced entry and burglary at a flat.
• 21/9/2002 Spring Court Property damage.
• 22/9/2002 The Boulevard Theft of a motor vehicle.
• 23/9/2002 The Avenue Property damage to a house.
• 23/9/2002 The Avenue Burglary at a house.
• 26/9/2002 Airlie Bank Road Forced entry and burglary at a house.
• 28/9/2002 Wyung Drive Theft from the front garden of a house.

Summary of Stolen Items for the Above Offences

Electrical Appliances, VCR, Cash, Cigarettes, Clothing, Garden Items, Jewellery, Personal Property,

Power Tools. One Motor Vehicle was stolen.

Three Offenders were processed for any reported offence in the area.

Source: http://nhw.gippsland.com/

Published by: malcolml@dcsi.net.au

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