Crime Prevention Services has the mandate to provide adequate training to all citizens willing to set aside an hour of their time and meet together with their neighbors to determine the concerns of area residents and determine measures we all can take to reduce crime and the fear of crime in our neighborhoods. Make no mistake about it. Attending a one-hour Community Watch meeting is not all that will be required to make your community safe. It involves neighbors watching out after their neighbors and reporting suspicious persons and circumstances to the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office. A trained crime prevention specialist will conduct the orientation meeting at your home, a school, a church, a library or any other facility of your choosing.
Weather permitting some neighborhoods choose to conduct their meeting outdoors.
A Community Oriented Policing deputy sheriff will join the meeting to offer his or her assistance in dealing with neighborhood concerns such as a drug house, gang activity, juvenile problems or vandalism. We seek people who will be vigilant, but not vigilantes, to observe and report any and all suspicious persons or vehicles in your neighborhoods. With this information the deputy sheriffs who patrol the neighborhoods can know what is abnormal for that neighborhood and take. Block Captain Training . After the Community Watch orientation meeting in a specific neighborhood we sometimes are asked to provide additional training for individuals who volunteer to serve as Block Captains.