Lake Pointe Block Watch Committee 

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Block Watch is a way of getting to know your neighbors and is really just an extension of what you are probably already doing on an informal basis. We tend to know and watch out for our closest neighbors, but a group of neighbors at one end of the block who are doing this may not know the group of neighbors at the other end of the block. Organizing a Block Watch makes this attitude of watchfulness more systematic, and provides a block map with neighbors' names and telephone numbers that can be used in case of an emergency.

It Takes Two Commitments

• A commitment to be concerned about your neighbor’s property as well as your own, and

• A commitment that when you see suspicious activity, you will take action by calling your neighbor or 9-1-1.

Block Watch Participant Responsibilities

Block Watch Captain Responsibilities

What Block Watch Is Not

Block Watch doesn't require you to perform any special tasks, go to a lot of meetings, or take on extra responsibilities. You don't have to patrol the neighborhood, or chase burglars. Block Watch just involves being alert as a part of your everyday life and getting to know your neighbors. For example, when you go to the window to open or close the drapes, instead of just opening or closing them and turning away, you might stop for a second and glance around the neighborhood to be sure everything is okay. When you go out to get in the car to go to work, instead of heading for the car with "tunnel vision," glance up and check the neighborhood. It is this kind of "watching" that is involved.

 Being a part of a Block Watch doesn't require you to live in your neighbor's hip pocket, or tell them every aspect of your business. You can still conduct your life in privacy. All it requires is that you and your neighbors be familiar enough with each other to know who belongs in the neighborhood and who doesn't; which cars are a part of the neighborhood and which aren't; and when something suspicious is going on. It doesn't require you to be any friendlier than you want to be.

 The Block Watch concept of neighbor watching out for neighbor—increases safety in our community.

 Block Watch also…

•  is a way to organize social events to get to know your neighbors and their kids.

• is a way to coordinate block parties, Easter Egg Hunts and pot-luck Bar-B-Q’s.

 

 On Line Registration!

Lake Pointe Block Watch Committee has launched its first on-line method of registration.

The concept was developed after online Block Watch research showed an increasing trend in people having less and less spare time to attend public meetings in the evenings to volunteer in the local crime prevention program.

The Lake Pointe Block Watch Committee has been able to build a registration process online. It takes less than two minutes to register. People who register are simply asked for some information in order to build a database. The Lake Pointe Block Watch committee will be able to electronically connect new registrants with each other within Lake Pointe and help build the crime prevention program street by street.

Simply email the following information to LakePointeBlockWatch@Yahoo.com or mail directly to Peggy Pletcher, 2915 Brittany Point Lane, Austin, TX  78738.

Name:             

Address:

Home Phone:                            Cell Phone:

Work Place:

Children:                                   Age: (optional)                          School:

Resident’s Vehicles:

            Year/Make                               Color                            License No.

            Year/Make                               Color                            License No.

Special health problems you’d like to share:

Any other important information:

 

Note:  Your Lake Pointe Block Watch captain will keep this information in a notebook or file.

 

THIS INFORMATION WILL NOT BE SHARED WITH ANY LOCAL BUSINESSES AND IS TO BE USED SOLELY TO CONDUCT A PROPER BLOCK WATCH PROGRAM.