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Our Home Owners Association has engaged Dictograph Security to provide patrols in marked vehicles on a random schedule to detect, deter, or prevent crime, vandalism and acts of mischief. 

     Under the leadership of Claire Place and with the support of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, we have an active Neighborhood Watch program.  Most streets in 49er’s have a Block Captain who has or will canvass that street to meet neighbors and inform them of the program.  The heart of Neighborhood Watch is “neighbors helping neighbors.”  This involves providing information on how to make a home safer, passing along reports and alerts from the Sheriff’s Department, reporting suspicious activity to law enforcement and, most importantly, watching out for each other and the neighborhood.

What is asked of you?  Be alert.  Know your neighbors and look out for each other.  Keep abreast of information regarding possible suspicious or criminal activity in the area.  Our beautiful weather allows us to be out and about during the mornings, mid day and early evenings.  Neighborhood Watch simply asks that when you are out, you have a heightened sense of awareness of your surroundings – who is coming and going, unusual vehicles in the area, inappropriate activities around homes where you know the homeowner is away or anything that seems well out of the ordinary.  If so, a simple call to the Sheriff’s Department, using either the
 emergency or non-emergency numbers depending on the circumstances, puts the matter into the hands of trained professionals.  We partner with them, but they have the responsibility to take whatever action is needed. living alone.  If you have such a neighbor, perhaps you can arrange some system of signals to be assured that everything is all right.  Phone calls at a specific time of day; placement of window shades or other simple devices are all that is needed.  Let’s all be neighbors helping neighbors.

If you would like to be added to the 49er’s Neighborhood Watch e-mail list, for messages and alerts, please send an e-mail to claireplace@cox.net .  Please include your name, address and telephone number, so that our Neighborhood Watch records are as accurate as possible.  Group messages are sent without disclosing your E-mail address or personal information.