Neighbourhood Watch Week will be taking place this year from Monday, May 30 to Sunday, June 5 and is a time to speak and support your neighbours.
The week will culminate with the celebrations for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with street parties, garden parties and other social events.
Chair of Bury and Districts Home Watch Association, Andrew Taylor, said: “If you are already part of a neighbourhood watch scheme, organise a social event.
“If you do not have a neighbourhood watch scheme in your street or locality, now is a perfect time to organise one with your neighbours and register it with the Neighbourhood Watch Network at www.ourwatch.co.uk.”
People can also register their scheme or themselves with Bury police by contacting police volunteer Dorothy Stoddard at Dorothy.Stoddard@gmp.police.uk
Andrew added: “We are very fortunate in Bury to have Dorothy as a police volunteer who deals with neighbourhood watch issues and emails a weekly crime report with useful advice to all our members.”
Dorothy explained the advantages of being part of neighbourhood watch or Home Watch (they are both one and the same) are increased neighbourliness, reduction in crime and anti-social behaviour and public liability insurance for all Neighbourhood Watch related events.
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