GODFREY'S GUIDE

Crime Prevention and Community Safety Advice
From Constable Danny Godfrey - Community Safety Unit, East Kilbride
As told to Jay Effdee
  COMMUNITY ACTION AGAINST CRIME

Initially, I'd like to continue in a Problem Solving Policing theme.
As with PSP, the following is not new - but, perhaps, it may help to reinforce the potential of Problem Solving Policing as applied to the community.
No matter where you live - you are part of a community, and this community, regardless of size or location, may well become [or, indeed, could already be]a target for the criminal.
Now, you could simply take the easy option and assume that "It couldn't happen here" or "There is nothing I can do"
There is, in fact, a lot which can be done to prevent crime - the police, however, cannot do it alone.
As residents you have a specialised knowledge of your community - more than a 'beat bobby'. could hope to acquire. 

   For example, you, or your neighbour, would recognise a stranger in YOUR community.
Simply by utilising that knowledge you can contribute effectively to the continued success of positive crime reduction and crime prevention.
Informing the police of anything suspicious you see or hear reduces the opportunities for crime to occur.
By the opportunities for crime you help ensure that Calderwood [or any other community] becomes, and remains, a safer, more community conscious, and, as a result, trouble free community.
In the coming months I'll be showing how Home Watch or Neighbourhood Watch schemes can be put into practice, and ,in addition, recapping on the variety of ways in which you can help make life more difficult for the criminal.  
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