Neighbourhood Watch

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We are looking for volunteers! for Neighbourhood Watch – Block Captains

If you would be interested in helping to make our neighbourhood a safer place to live for you, your family, friends and neighbours, for a minimal amount of your time?

Join us in becoming a team member of the Champlain Park Neighbourhood Watch Block Captains

Please send email to: champlainpark@gmail.com (subject line: Block Captain)
We thank-you in advance

Keeping porch light helps in making a feeling of safety in the neighbourhood

<snippet from Kitchissippi Ward Newsletter #117>
One resident suggested to Jeff Leiper to keep your porch light on after dark to contribute to our community safety. Energy efficient bulbs are not very costly to run, but the difference they make in the feeling of safety in the neighbourhood is huge. It’s a great suggestion!

Neighbourhood Watch Team

Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator

Lori Kibbee

lorikibbee@icloud.com

Community Police Constable

Darren Joseph

613-236-1222,ext 5871

josephd@ottawapolice.ca

Section	Block Captains	Contact info
Northwestern Avenue from Amanda Avenue halfway to Clearview Avenue	Vacant
Northwestern Avenue from Clearview Avenue halfway to Amanda Avenue	Kris Phillips	Kris.phillips.canada@gmail.com
Northwestern Avenue from Clearview Avenue to Pontiac Avenue	Vacant
Carleton Avenue from Amanda Avenue to Sunnymede Avenue	Devon La Prairie Haynes	devonlph@icloud.com
Carleton Avenue from Sunnymede Avenue to Clearview Avenue	Lori Kibbee	lorikibbee@icloud.com
Carleton Avenue from Clearview Avenue to Pontiac Avenue	Michael Cheng	cheng12@sympatico.ca
Cowley Avenue from Amanda Avenue to Sunnymede Avenue	Carol Arnason	arnasoncarol@gmail.com
Cowley Avenue from Sunnymede Avenue to Clearview Avenue	Bill Baggs	billbggs@gmail.com
Cowley Avenue from Clearview Avenue to Pontiac Avenue	Alexandra Evershed	Alexandra@evershed.ca
Pontiac Avenue from Cowley Avenue to Keyworth Avenue	Dan Wilcock	CPCADan@gmail.com
Keyworth Avenue from Amanda Avenue to Sunnymede Avenue	Vacant
Keyworth Avenue from Sunnymede Avenue to Clearview Avenue	Vacant
Keyworth Avenue from Clearview Avenue to Pontiac Avenue	Vacant
Daniel Avenue from Amanda Avenue to Sunnymede Avenue	Vacant
Daniel Avenue from Sunnymede Avenue to Clearview Avenue (includes north end of Daniel Avenue)	Lianne Bellisario	lianne.bellisario@gmail.com
Patricia Avenue from Amanda Avenue to Sunnymede Avenue	Lynda Fancy	lynda.fancy@sympatico.ca
Patricia Avenue from Sunnymede Avenue to Pontiac Avenue	Vacant
Clearview Avenue from Patricia Avenue to Island Park Drive	Alan Smith	alanjsmith@rogers.com

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Neighbourhood Watch (NW) Program

Purpose: Sponsored by the Ottawa Police Service

Neighbourhood Watch (NW) is one of several core crime prevention programs offered by the Ottawa Police Service through its Community Police Centres. It is a community driven program designed to help deter crime by utilizing the active aid and vigilance of the caring citizens who reside in the community itself. All residents in the community are enlisted in the program with the purpose of discouraging and preventing crime at the local level. To achieve this, residents are encouraged to watch out for neighbours whether they are the folks next door or the next street. The ultimate success of Neighbourhood Watch depends largely upon all residents making a commitment to cooperate with each other and with the Police. In this way, the entire community can combat crime before it starts by reducing the opportunities for crime to occur.

A Neighbourhood Watch (also referred to as a ‘Watch’) signifies a group of neighbours bonded together to protect each other’s interests to reduce or prevent crime and vandalism within a defined locale such as a neighbourhood (several streets within a specific geographical locale), a city street or block, apartment or condominium or a rural area.

A Neighbourhood Watch does NOT involve:
a) time consuming duties and obligations
b) being a busybody
c) being a vigilante
d) fees for service

It simply encourages residents to be observant of suspicious behaviors, people or vehicles in their neighbourhood and to report these to the police and to their NW Coordinator. One of the accomplishments Neighbourhood Watch had achieved in some communities has been the elimination of vandalism and rowdiness within active watch areas.

Structure:

The NW Program depends on a communication network made up of members of the community. The Watch is expected to have a Coordinator, selected from among its members, as well as several Block Captains to help the Watch run smoothly and to facilitate communication to and from Watch members.

Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator

The Coordinator is principally responsible for the entire Watch and serves as the Watch’s contact with the Ottawa Neighbourhood Watch Executive Committee (ONWEC) and the Ottawa Police Service – primarily through the local Community Police Centre. There are occasional meetings (possible once a year) called by the ONWEC to which Coordinators are invited where problems and issues affecting the City as a whole are discussed. Coordinators may also call local community meetings from time to time or channel information to residents through established local communication networks whenever a particular rash of crimes occur in the area about which members should be aware.

Block Captain (for the block you live on)

Vacancies (on some blocks)

The duties of the Block Captain will offer very little change in lifestyle for the citizen involved. Rather, they provide a means for the Block Captain to meet his or her neighbours, as well as a vehicle for making the community a safer place to live.

Block Captain’s duties can include

supervising the Watch activities of the community members who join Neighbourhood Watch;
responsible for 1 city block, or similar designated territory;
assisting in welcoming new neighbours;
assisting Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator with meetings;
encourage neighbourhood participation in the Neighbourhood Watch program;
serve as a liaison between Block Captain and community members, including channeling information;
attending the Neighbourhood Watch seminars or workshops that may be conducted from time to time;
inform Watch members of Neighbourhood Watch techniques, such as how to observe suspicious activity, what to observe, and similar crime prevention techniques; and
provide incentive for community members to continue their crime prevention efforts.

Watch Member

Watch members are community members who participate in Neighbourhood Watch; they report suspicious activity to their Block Captains, for instance.

If you know someone who is interested, please have them contact:
champlainpark@gmail.com (subject line: Block Captain)

A Crime Prevention pamphlet is made available to all members and can be obtained either through the Coordinator or directly from the local Community Police Centre.

Other Crime Prevention Programs of the Ottawa Police that may be of interest to residents are:

Operation Identification:

This Program offers residents the free loan of an electric engraver from your local Community Police Centre, with which to mark your personal possessions and other valuables with a unique identifier, such as your driver’s licence number or your vehicle licence plate number. This is a proactive measure against theft since marked stolen items are easily traced and difficult to sell. You are also encouraged to inventory, photograph or videotape the contents of your home that cannot be engraved, including silverware, jewelry, figurines, paintings, and so on. Such records are of particular value in the event that any of these items is lost due to fire or theft requiring the submission of an insurance claim.

Window stickers are also provided for your home to alert potential thieves that you have taken proactive measures to deter theft by marking your valuables.

Home Security Inspection Program:

This Program is a free service available upon request in which trained representatives of the Ottawa Police will visit your home to conduct a security audit and assess your security concerns. Residents will be provided with a written report listing any security improvements that might be suggested along with other information on how to protect their homes. There is no obligation on the part of residents to take action on any points that may be observed but any such suggestions are recommended.

To arrange for a Home Security Inspection merely contact the Home Security Coordinator of your local Community Police Centre to make an appointment.

Childprint:

The Childprint program typically operates throughout the summer months in various parks of the City and at other times, in other locations as requested, such as schools or community centres. Once a child’s fingerprints are recorded in the free booklet provided, parents can then inscribe other descriptive information about their child such as age, gender, height, weight, and photograph etc. This booklet can be either a valuable resource in the unlikely event that the child at some future time becomes missing and has to be identified, or it can be a cherished souvenir which records the child’s vital statistics at a particular time of life. The fingerprinting of a child can also be done at any time on request by visiting any Community Police Centre.

Contact information:

The local Community Police Centre for the Champlain Park community is located at 1064 Wellington St (in the lobby area of the Hintonburg Community Centre).

Contact Cst. Darren Joseph directly (west of O-Train, Line 2) at josephd@ottawapolice.ca or call 613-236-1222, ext. 5871.

Contact Cst. Stephanie Lemieux directly (east of O-Train, Line 2) at lemieuxs@ottawapolice.ca or call 613-236-1222, ext. 5287.

To report a life threatening situation or crime in progress (only), call 911.

For other emergencies (suspicious activity or vehicle; alcohol or drug use in public; youth under age 16 out between midnight and 6:00 a.m.), call 613-230-6211.

To report other incidents after the fact, call 613-236-1222, ext 7300, or attend any Police office.

To report any by-law infractions (parking, graffiti, etc.), call the City of Ottawa, at 311.