RE: Neighbourhood Talks : Community Awareness
I think it must be very interesting to listen to the community leaders who come to your shop to talk about important issues. And you can add your ideas to their talk and they will listen. They will listen if they want to stay on your good side! So I think you will not just let them talk, you will ask what action they have taken and that will make them take action!
I hope all the children will be safe. It sounds like your neighbors keep a close eye on them. They know them and know who is a stranger who should not be there.
In some of our neighborhoods, especially near schools, they have set up 'safe places' where any child in trouble can go. These are just people who want to protect children. I think the police help with setting it up, putting up the signs and making sure they know who to call for help. It makes things a little safer.
Yes @donna-metcalfe 😊 some of the community leaders like to spent their time at the shop be ause they can discuss with other and especially with both of us☺ not so many women to talk to about various topics here. Our best enemy is ourselves right now.. why? We don't really care on others and easily belueve the hoax news through social media. I suggest the community leader to make a community capacity building on protecting their neighbourhood not only for children safety but also to react on other mass euphoria and paranoias.
We only have a unit at the sector police to handle the problems that involved women and children, but they're only a passive unit, they'll work once they have any reports from community. That's why affirmative action from the district government and community of neighbourhoods need to applied in such situation.
Most people thought that it aren't their business, until they became the victims.
People not caring until it happens to them is so true. Then it becomes important - to them - and they don't understand why no one else cares!
I understand about passive police. If something is not reported to them officially then they can't do anything about it. That's mostly the law, unless they see it or someone tells them they can't interfere. But there are communities where the police are more active. They give classes and help neighborhoods organize. In my town there is a program called "Neighborhood Watch" - first someone has to ask, then the police will come out and talk to everyone and put out signs. The signs tell people that this neighborhood is watching out for each other. And watching out for strangers. This doesn't make it nice for strangers, whether they are good or bad people, but the point is to keep everyone safe. Someone has to agitate, stir the pot, get the leaders off their behinds!
somehow @donna-metcalfe, we already have that kind of neighbourhood watch, we have our own security neighbourhood and sometimes the sector police and millitary rayon chief also sent their man to our neighbourhood, but more to get some "cigarettes fee"rather than protect our neighbourhood, maybe because we're living in Urban Area. some neighbours suggest to use CCTV for the neighbourhood.. but in my opinion, CCTV won't work really good, community watch is better than anything but the community leader could bridge our own system with the police program.
Yes, you don't need official signs for a neighborhood watch! The camera idea would work best if there were warning signs everywhere - the more signs the less cameras you would need! :-)
Is a "cigarette fee" what it sounds like? A "gift" to the police that they expect? Like free coffee but cigarettes (or money?) to keep the policemen happy?
I am thinking that the police won't come up with ideas that make extra work for them, so the ideas will have to come from the community to your leaders and then up the ladder to someone important enough to make some changes.