Historic Hyde Park Neighborhood Watch

Guidelines For Neighborhood Watch Members

Get acquainted with your neighbors.

Exchange names, addresses and phone numbers with your neighbors.

Give your neighbors your business and emergency phone numbers where you can be
reached.

Give your residence and neighborhood maximum visibility by keeping shrubbery neatly
trimmed.  Use exterior lighting, especially at doors.

Know your neighbor’s automobiles.

Post the address numbers of your residence where they can be readily seen from the street. 

Have your mail and paper picked up by a trusted neighbor while you are on vacation. 

Keep a written inventory of your possessions.

Have emergency phone numbers readily available by the telephone: Fire, Police and
Medical Emergency - 9-1-1; Poison Center - 1-800-222-1222 (Call 9-1-1 first).

To report a crime in progress, call 9-1-1.  Continue to observe the subject or subjects and obtain a description as well as a mode and direction of travel.  Do not confront the subjects.

To report suspicious activity, please call Tampa Police Dispatch at 813-231-6130.

Identify yourself to the police communications operator as a Neighborhood Watch member.

Use a Vacation Watch form available for download from Tampa Police Department at http://www.tampagov.net/police/program/neighborhood-watch. 

Take an active interest in your neighborhood.

Attend Neighborhood Watch meetings.

Encourage your neighbors to be involved.

Your Coordinator will keep in contact with the Tampa Police Department - District One Crime Prevention Unit and inform them about community concerns and the dates of your Neighborhood Watch meetings.

This is not a vigilante committee.  We are the eyes and ears assisting the police in making our neighborhood a safe place to live.