The Neighborhood Watch Program was created for citizens to work with local law enforcement officers to detect and prevent crimes in their neighborhood.  To start a group:

1. Call the Escambia Sheriff’s Office, Community Orientated Policing Unit at 436-9494 to schedule a time to have a representative come to your neighborhood to set up the program and to provide necessary training for the members.
2. Locate a meeting location for your first meeting and distribute flyers to the meeting to every household in the neighborhood – including people who may be creating problems. This will alert them that neighbors will be working with law enforcement to reduce crime in the neighborhood.
3. Sign up members to participate in the program. All members are required to have a background check.
4. Select a captain to act as the liaison between your members and the Escambia Sheriff’s Office.

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