5/30/20161 Neighborhood Safety Watch DETAILS FOR BLOCK CAPTAINS By R ishi Kumar For all watch.html For block captains only watch.html

5/30/20162 Objective: Neighborhood Safety By reporting suspicious persons and activities in your neighborhood to the authorities, you give law enforcement probable cause to approach those individuals and ask them their business. Criminals and terrorists know that otherwise, they can move through our neighborhoods, cities, states and country unrestricted, committing crime with impunity. An effective Neighborhood Watch program provides an important layer of protection and intolerance to all types of external, threatening activity. By making neighborhoods safer, parents become role models to their own children. By establishing good neighbor houses on every block and protecting each other’s child, neighbors embrace the proverb; “it takes the village to raise the child”. We can improve the quality of life by working together to strip away the veils of fear by stopping crime or terrorism in our neighborhoods. By working with law enforcement, you become an active partner in protecting your community and your country. By building bridges of cooperation instead of walls of isolation, and working together for a common goal, you restore family values of responsibility, love, discipline, and respect. Children receive profound life lessons that they can pass along to future generations. By working together to protect each other's child and property, we can overcome our fears and take control of our destiny.

5/30/20163 Our Focus Geographical Area

5/30/20164 DeHavilland Ct. Shubert Ct. NewHouse Ct. Shubert Drive Columbine Ct. Anza Drive Zone 10 Zone 9 Zone 7 Zone 6 Zone 5 Zone 4 Zone 3 Zone 2 Zone 1 Zone 11 Zone 8 DeHavilland Drive Cox NEIGHBORHOOD ZONE MAP C C C C CC C C C

5/30/20165 As a result of the Neighborhood Safety Watch Program we will get a “Neighborhood Watch” sign at two of the entry points of our neighborhood Cox Saratoga AvenueSaratoga Avenue Shubert Drive Miller DeHavilland SaratogaSunnyvaleRdSaratogaSunnyvaleRd

5/30/20166 Neighborhood Safety Watch Coordinators NamePhoneAddress

5/30/20167 Responsibilities of “Neighborhood Safety” Coordinators Setup and governance of Neighborhood Safety Watch Liasion with city of Saratoga. Act as law enforcement liaison that informs their group about law breaking activities that have occurred in the neighborhood. Oversees the distribution of materials and information to the Block Captains, who in turn inform the homes in their group. This chain of command reduces duplication and promotes efficiency and discipline; Maintains work and home phone numbers, addresses, names and ages of people in the households as Emergency personnel (911) may need this information;

5/30/20168 Responsibilities of Block Captains Compile a phone / tree. (USE THE DOWNLOAD Work with their zone homes and derive an informal structure to watch out for each other’s property; Maintain an emergency information and phone numbers (that may not be available to others in that group) Inform the zone about law breaking activities that have occurred in the neighborhood. Be cognizant of your zone neighbors away on vacation. (Neighbors to inform the block captain of upcoming vacations by phone / ). Pick a backup Attend meetings (if needed) –For the Second Neighborhood Safety Watch meeting on March 2 nd, 7PM at the Saratoga Library, we would like you to contact the neighbors in your zone and invite them to the meeting. –We do need 80% quorum to be compliant with City of Saratoga Regulatations. –Folks from you zone who attended the first meeting in December (held at the Library, December 9th) need not attend

5/30/ DOCUMENTS Zone_blockcaptain.doc – PRINT and Pass it on to your neighbors ZoneDirectoryTemplate.xls Excel Spreadsheet to keep a record of your neighbors Neighborhood_safety_watchSENT2Blockc ap.pdf – It is a presentation Cookbookblockcaptain.pdf – DETAILS of Block CAPTAIN

5/30/ Draft 1 Responsibilities of Block Captains Pick a backup / assistant Work with their zone homes and install a structure to watch out for each other’s property; Be responsible for emergency information and phone numbers that may not be available to others in that group –List the locations of dogs in the neighborhood. (Barking dogs alert neighbors to unusual and suspicious activities.) Act as law enforcement liaison to inform the group about law breaking activities that have occurred in the neighborhood. Maintain and update neighborhood map and phone tree. Be cognizant of zone neighbors away on vacation Attend meetings (if needed) –For the Second Neighborhood Safety Watch meeting on March 2 nd at Saratoga Library, we would like you to contact the neighbors in your zone and bring them over. We would like a Neighborhood Safety Watch Sign and need 80% quorum.

5/30/ Responsibilities of Block Captain Backup Distribute the newsletter and (911) information; Help make phone calls and coordinate neighborhood projects and reduce the load on the block captain