Welcome to the Brompton-on-Swale Neighbourhood Police & Neighbourhood Watch section

WHAT IS NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH?

Neighbourhood Watch is a partnership where people come together to make their communities safer. It involves the Police, Community Safety departments of local authorities, other voluntary organisations and, above all, individuals and families who want to make their neighbourhoods better places to live. It aims to help people protect themselves and their properties and to reduce the fear of crime by means of improved home security, greater vigilance, accurate reporting of suspicious incidents to the police and by fostering a community spirit.

When to make an emergency 999 call
North Yorkshire Police receive in excess of 50,000 emergency 999 calls every year and seek to answer all of them within 5 seconds of receipt from the emergency operator.

• When there is a threat to life (including road traffic accidents where persons are injured, the road is blocked or a vehicle involved in the accident has failed to stop).
  
• Violence to a person or damage to property is imminent.
  
• A serious offence is actually in progress.
  
• A suspected offender is still at the scene of a crime or any delay in reporting the incident may prevent the offender being apprehended.
  
• Serious disruption to the public is currently taking place or, is likely to take place.