Neighbourhood Watch | Niagara Regional Police Service

What is Neighbourhood Watch?

Neighbourhood Watch is about neighbours looking out for neighbours. The Niagara Regional Police Service supports community-led initiatives that promote awareness, reporting, and prevention while ensuring safety and accountability.

Neighbourhood Watch is primarily an online platform for communities to share information, look out for one another and help mitigate risks in their communities.

Neighbourhood Watch Tool Kit

The Niagara Regional Police Service has built a Neighbourhood Watch Program Tool Kit with a step-by-step guide to help you build your Neighbourhood Watch Program group, report suspicious activities, understand how to be a good witness, and other important information you may need along the way.

View the Neighbourhood Watch Tool Kit

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Neighbourhood Watch Groups are organizations that:

Focus on their own specific neighbourhoods within the Niagara Region.
Teach citizens techniques to reduce the risk of being victimized at home and in public.
Train citizens to recognize and report suspicious activities, and become good witnesses.
Teach participants how to make their homes more secure and how to properly reduce risks to their property, using Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles.
Allow neighbours to get to know each other and their routines so that unusual activity can be reported and investigated.
Bring citizens together to address the needs and issues that concern the entire community.