CRIME prevention was the key aim of people attending a meeting in Launceston last week to discuss how neighbourhood watch schemes could be developed.
Town councillor Sam Allen, who organised the meeting at the Otho Peter Room in the town hall on April 16, said she wasn’t ‘asking people to sit there and spy on their neighbours’, but added: “The main purpose for inviting you along to this meeting is that within my role of police liaison within Launceston Town Council I feel that we need to help and support our local police team and with the rise lately in crime in the area of Launceston, a neighbourhood watch scheme is a way of doing this.”
A watch scheme is a group of like-minded people getting together to help reduce crime and make their community safer.
Cllr Allen explained her vision is for areas of the town to have a neighbourhood watch scheme, with co-ordinators of the groups meeting with her, and if needed a member of the local policing team on a regular basis, to help each other with any difficulties.
Julie Dowton, chair of the DaCCWA, gave a presentation to the meeting on neighbourhood watch schemes.
Attending the meeting were residents from Kensey Valley Meadow, Hurdon Way, Trecarrell and Upper Chapel.
Cllr Allen said the meeting identified ‘several problems’, and that they ‘want to talk to the estates’ around the town about the neighbourhood watch idea. She said it would be an ongoing project, and that leaflets about neighbourhood watch will soon be available, hopefully at the monthly markets in the square and town councillor surgeries.
Anyone interested in finding out more about the potential for schemes in Launceston can contact Cllr Allen by emailing [email protected]
To find out about neighbourhood watch schemes in your area or to discuss setting up a new scheme, contact your local policing team or complete the non-emergency form, available via www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/neighbourhoodwatch
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