Community Policing:
The Block Captain's Role

Length of Program:
13 minutes
Format:
VHS
Audience:
Adult
Catalog #
V9603

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How to set up and maintain a watch group...

This compelling video instructs the viewer about working to keep a neighborhood safe.

The included scenarios portray a typical, concerned citizen who is urged by her neighbors to become Block Captain of their neighborhood crime-watch.
She shows that it doesn't take a lot of time or effort to be a Block Captain.

You can easily teach anyone how to set up a block watch simply by handing them this video and the included Block Captain's Handbook, and letting them run with it.

 

Learn how to be a Block Captain!


Viewers learn that it isn't hard to do the job of a
Block Captain.

Meet your neighbors and make new friends!


Learn how to contact your neighbors.

Work with law enforcement to make your neighborhood safer!


Learn about how the police can help.

Find out the power of cooperation and community!


Viewers will learn how to pull their neighbors together into a cohesive unit.


How to use this video:

Show it at neighborhood watch meetings.
Show it to community groups such as the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis.
Provide it on a check-out basis to persons who are interested in organizing a block-watch.
Great for libraries! Broadcast it on your local cable television station.

Review:
"...After emphasizing the need for neighborhood watch programs, this video outlines the basics of creating and maintaining community policing, focusing on the role of the block captain. Advice is offered for initiating the program with local authorities, working with community members, and the importance of creating telephone trees and block maps. In addition, viewers are encouraged to set up occasional meetings, where a wide variety of topics may be addressed. Recommended..."
¶¶¶- Video Librarian

What people are saying:
"The video on the block captain was, to say the least, great!"
Officer Wade Malaby, Haltom City P.D.

 

 

Block Captain's Handbook
A copy of this book
comes with the video.

last update 01/22/07