Available Neighborhood Watch Training Topics
Citizen Patrol
 Increase the security profile and presence in your neighborhood. Creating a united voice
sends a solid message against crime in your neighborhood.
 Increase the eyes on the streets to notice and report blighted properties, safety hazards,
and abandoned vehicles.
 Learn how to work in partnership with the Sacramento Police Department to “Make
Sacramento the Safest Big City in California.”
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
 The goal of CPTED is to reduce opportunities for crime that may be inherent in the
design of structures or in the design of neighborhoods.
 CPTED is based on four overlapping principles: Natural Access Control, Natural
Surveillance, Territorial Reinforcement, and Maintenance.
 From this training participants will learn about “Target Hardening,” making your home
the hardest home on the block to break into by:
 Upgrading windows
 Replace strike plate and hinge screws with longer ones (3”)
 Alarm/Video system
 Keeping gates locked
 Bars on windows
 Fencing
 Protecting HVAC systems
 Landscape design
 Lighting
Developing an Effective Neighborhood Crime Prevention Program Through Reporting and
Citizen Patrol
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Teaches neighbors how to contact Code Enforcement and Public Safety Dispatchers to
report violations, suspicious activity, and crime.
Developing a program that will ensure the safety of neighborhood watch members and
establishing a program that will have a lasting impact in your neighborhood, is the goal
of this training.
Firearm Theft Safety
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Homeowners should ensure their firearms have been purchased legally and registered
according to state laws.
Firearms are particularly targeted in residential burglaries, and if they are easily
accessible to a homeowner, they are also easily found by a burglar. Criminals know the
common hiding spots for firearms, no matter how creative, and will ransack a home to
find them.
All firearms have serial numbers, however, not all serial numbers are documented in a
database. Be sure you have documented the serial numbers on ALL your firearms.
Unsecured firearms in the hands of a criminal pose a threat to the homeowner who
interrupts a burglary, the community, and law enforcement.
Stolen firearms end up on the street and in the hands of criminals who use them to
commit a variety of crimes.
Learn how to properly store your weapons and ammunition so it is accessible only to
you.
Leadership
 Brush up your skills on marketing, motivating and management in this training.
Tightening up your meeting agendas, recruiting new members, and board development
are the foundation of this training. Building a strong group that will persevere into the
future, long after you are gone, should be a good leader’s goal.
Metal Theft
 Learn to protect your catalytic converters and copper wiring through this very
interesting presentation taught by our Metal Theft team.
Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness
 Are you ready? In the past few years, Sacramento has had tornados, floods,
earthquakes, and fires. We must be ready for the next round of disasters because, as
they say, “It isn’t IF it happens, it’s WHEN it happens.” Learn how to get yourself and
your family member prepared.
Neighborhood Watch 101
 This presentation informs participants of the importance of Neighborhood Watch and
provides strategies on starting a Neighborhood Watch program within their community.
 Learn how to establish a culture of “safety first” in all of the group’s actions and discuss
the basic structure of the organization, meeting logistics, contact list, officers, and how
to safely be the “eyes and the ears” for the police.
Neighborhood Watch 101 - Spanish Version
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Personal and Home Security
 This is a hybrid course that covers personal safety and home security. It will include
concepts on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design as well as personal safety
through increased awareness.
 Incorporate basic crime prevention into your everyday life through small alterations in
how you interact in public and making small changes to your home and travel patterns.
Personal and Home Security Holiday Version Part I
 In all of the excitement, Halloween and Thanksgiving can be times of increased criminal
activity.
 Participants will learn how to avoid potential fire hazards, decorating mishaps, auto
burglaries, and much more during the holiday season and all year round.
Personal and Home Security Holiday Version Part II
 Part II includes Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Chinese New Year mishaps, and how to
avoid them.
Personal and Home Security for Seniors
 Seniors are our most vulnerable group of neighbors.
 Participants will learn about simple things they can do to make themselves less of a
target.
 Learn about scams and those scams that specifically target the elderly.
Personal and Home Security Summer Version
 The summer months are a time of fun in the sun, but they also bring on safety concerns
for the community.
 Participants will learn safety tips in such areas as;
o Water safety
o Poison oak
o Sunburn
o Sunstroke
o Landscaping/lawn mowing
o Fire safety
Reporting: Code Enforcement and Crime
 This training is one of the fundamental trainings for Neighborhood Watch groups.
Without neighbors who are watching and calling, there is no Neighborhood Watch.
 In this training participants will learn the skills required to make a good “observer” and
an excellent “reporter.”
Scams and Schemes
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This presentation focuses on the various common scams perpetrated by criminals
throughout Sacramento and ways that you can protect yourself.
Participants will learn about scams that occur over the phone, online, and in person.
Welcome to Neighborhood Watch
 A very brief intro to Neighborhood Watch which includes a few of the basics:
o The first meeting
o Recruitment/outreach
o Obtaining and relaying accurate suspect descriptions to the police