Our Community Watch program consists solely of informational resources to encourage residents to be mindful of their exposure to some potential risk of criminal activity, how to minimize such risks, and how to report incidents if they should ever occur.
Please note that our program is NOT a neighborhood patrol program. To learn more about our information resources, visit this page on the FHA website, where you will find a wide range of safety recommendations, tips, and links to related information.
While ours is not a crime-ridden neighborhood, we are not immune from the risk and we all need to be vigilant. While rare, in the past 10 years there have been several prior home burglaries and recently there have been several incidents of items taken from unlocked vehicles parked in driveways in the historic district.
Three Most Important Recommendations
- Keep an eye out for your nearby neighbors and your neighborhood. If you see something suspicious, say (report) something.
- When leaving your home (even for a short period of time), you should lock your home and garage doors and close any open ground floor and garage windows. At night, you should close and lock all ground floor windows (including the garage, especially if it is connected to your home).
- Always lock vehicle(s) when left outside and close all the open vehicle windows and don't leave valuables (such as wallets, purses, handbags, smartphones, computer tablets, etc.) inside any locked or unlocked vehicle (even if stored in the glovebox or other covered storage locations (where anyone could easily find them by searching unsystematically and untidily through the interior.
The Chatham County Sheriff's Department does occasionally patrol our village, but Chatham County is very large and they cannot be everywhere or anywhere at once.
