Chief Of Police Randy Holland

Dear Neighbors,

The way of life in the United States has changed rapidly.  Americans don’t know their neighbors as well as they once did.  Churches, schools and neighborhoods are no longer the social institutions linking entire families into a single community.  With the growth of our communities, we all seek more privacy, therefore our front porches have disappeared and the family has moved its social activities to the back yard, often behind tall fences or hedges. This privacy, the moving our front porches to our back yards, has had its price.  The security and safety that our old neighborhoods and communities provided in the past, has disappeared years ago.

Neighborhood Watch Programs were instituted in 1972 in response to the rise in burglaries and vandalism that began to plague our homes and neighborhoods.  This program is the most effective means available for keeping crime out of our neighborhoods.  It is the best crime fighting tool ever invented-neighbors watching for neighbors.  It brings citizens into action to protect their own property, to implement crime measures, and to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in proactive community crime prevention programs. 

When communities work together with law enforcement, they become extra “eyes and ears” for the agency, helping create the best crime prevention team around.  You and your neighbors are vital in helping making our neighborhoods safer.  Neighborhood Watch has proven to be the most effective means for getting citizens to take positive steps to protect themselves and their neighbors against crime.  The actions required to make a neighborhood safe reduces the possibilities of burglaries, assaults, rapes, robberies and acts of vandalism.

The Neighborhood Watch Program will link citizens to the police department via the official JCPD Facebook site or by email.  Citizens will receive alerts advising them of crimes in their neighborhood, safety tips, and other informative information.  I have provided you a link to the JCPD Facebook page at the end of this letter. 

Be part of our crime prevention team, be a watchful neighbor and help make your area safer by starting a Neighborhood Watch Program in your neighborhood.  This battle against crime can be won by working together.  Let’s bond the spirit of cooperation between law enforcement and the people they serve.  It’s up to all of us to make our community a better place.  Together we can make a difference.

Sincerely,

Lieutenant Ross Allen

Neighborhood Watch / Business Watch Coordinator

Chief Of Police Randy Holland

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