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We hope you will visit our site on a regular basis to fi
nd out
what is happening in Doddinghurst Neighbourhood Watch. Even Better -
please come to our meetings which are normally on the first Tuesday of
each month at 1:30 p.m in the Parish Room at the Village Hall. We held our second Annual General Meeting on 1st May 2012. For more information about our busy year, please look at the Chairman's Report that was summarised at the meeting.
Membership of Neighbourhood Watch is free, but we would appreciate donations of items such as unwanted gifts that can be used as prizes at our main fundraising event at the May Fair.
We try to publish the latest warnings and advice from the police on notices around the village and in these pages. Most are in Recent Scams and Alerts . We have recently been asked to publicise some information about Burglar Alarms .
The list of links now contains one to The Angelus Foundation which some parents set up after losing much loved children to those specially designed but untested drugs known as 'legal highs' They talk about the peer pressure on teenagers to try these drugs on the grounds that they 'aren't illegal' despite the great physical harm that they can cause.
We welcomed PC Thomas Buchanan at the May meeting. He will be a member of the Brentwood North team and supporting us in Doddinghurst. This follows the arrival of Sergeant Steve Taylor at a previous meeting. Steve's new responsibility is to look after the Brentwood and surrounding area communities. He comes to us after experience with Traffic, 999 Response and Armed Response teams lead to his recent promotion. He hopes to spend two years with us and to work closely with our PCSOs to cover Doddinghurst and the other villages 18 hours a day. The PCSOs work with or under the supervision of Police Officers based elsewhere in Essex to give normal 24-hour emergency cover.
The team can be contacted via the new 101 number; 0300 333 4444 or using the Doddinghurst PCSO's beat mobile number 07896 813524.
Our Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator, Bill Reid, keeps in regular touch with the police and with the Essex Neighbourhood Watch Executive. Bill passes on details of the latest scams, and threats such as types of burglary or other theft so that we can all be on our guard and continue to keep Doddinghurst as one of the most crime-free parts of England.
Please try to find time to look at some articles about our recent activities.
and you might be impressed by the Firework Safety Posters created by the Junior section
And you can keep ahead of the bad guys by looking at our pages on Recent Scams and Alerts.
We are just starting an initiative to publicise the scams and alerts to everyone in Doddinghurst - not just members. Drafts of the posters that we expect to use are also in Recent Scams and Alerts.
Theses pages are updated every time we are notified of a new burglary or theft trick. Read the latest one about frosty car theft there.
Don't miss the Essex police website. It looks great and has lots of useful information.
Forthcoming Meetings
Next NHW Meeting Tuesday 12th June at 1:30pm