1. Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) is one of the biggest and most successful and long-standing crime prevention initiatives ever and the largest voluntary organisation in the country.

2. If you join your local Neighbourhood Watch Scheme you can feel secure knowing that your neighbours are keeping an eye on your property and your neighbourhood with direct contact to the local community police officer for the Waunddu Community.

3. Getting together with your neighbours can prevent local crime with well-run and well-supported Neighbourhood Watch Schemes having a big adverse impact on local crime, anti-social behaviour, drunken disorder and eliminate most, if not all opportunities for localised crime.

4. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes can reassure those who constantly live in fear of crime. Statistics confirm that your neighbourhood will be definitely safer, friendlier, and a more attractive place for all when you have a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme established and working for you.

5. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes is an ideal way of targeting a particular criminal problem in your local area, such as burglary, anti-social behaviour, drink-crazed gangs, indiscriminate vandalism, indiscriminate criminal damage or serious car crime.

6. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes can rekindle community spirit and is a great way to get to know your neighbours and working together successfully to reduce criminal activity and the fear of crime.

7. You as an active participant of your local Neighbourhood Watch Scheme will become familiar with official government up-to-date crime prevention guidelines - see Crime Prevention Information Section, to keep your home, community, neighbourhood and property safe.

8. Finally, you may be entitled to a discount on your home insurance premiums - e.g. Norwich Union. However, remember that if you qualify for such a discount you must inform your insurance company immediately should you withdraw your membership from the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme or the Scheme ceases to function.

Local Neighbourhood Watch Associations in conjunction with Partnerships and Communities Together (PACT), is about encouraging the local community to take responsibility and 'ownership' of problems that effect their area. The policing service to our local community should reflect and respond to the needs of the community. Long term and short-term policing solutions should be needs-based and therefore selected by the local NHW members on behalf of the local community, targeted at a specific localised problem or problems, and delivered leading to improvements in the quality of life for residents living in the Local Area. The Neighbourhood Watch commitment is to build communities where local people are actively involved in improving the quality of life for every resident in and around the Local Community, by detering criminal activity and therefore to reduce, or even eradicate local crime and disorder, and the constant fear of crime.

For any Local Neighbourhood Watch Scheme to be successful, effective and remain effective, with the community benefiting from the advantages - stated above, all residents must become empowered by influencing decisions necessary to combat criminal activity within the local community, and remain fully active decision-making participants of the Scheme. As the Local Neighbourhood Watch Scheme Co-ordinator, they are prepared to organise and co-ordinate the Local Neighbourhood Watch Scheme, but need full support from all residents of the Local community to succeed, remain effective and working towards making Local and surrounding Communities a Crime-Free Area.