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At the present time we have insufficient manpower to address the needs of the communities efficiently. Our Crime Prevention efforts have been to develop Neighborhood Watch concepts and to outline guidelines. To offer Operation Identification, and do home security surveys if requested. These services, although offered, have not been actively promoted. If a citizen requests these services, we will provide them with an officer to meet their needs, although this usually means an officer on overtime. At best we can only supply them with part time services. Our communities needs are growing, and we would ultimately like to provide them with full time services and actively promote Crime Prevention services. We hope our Crime Prevention efforts are sustained through support from our contract cities and that future funding will be generated through them. At the present time, the crime rate in the contract cities indicates a need for continued and additional Crime Prevention services. We would like to 'continue and expand our Community Crime Watch Program. We have 42 groups to which we have presented the Neighborhood Watch concept in the last three years. At this time we have 15 groups known to be currently active. All of these groups have been organized in the last 12 months. Additional groups have completed the requirements and had signs posted prior to August 1989, but due to manpower and record shortages, we have not been able to determine the status of those groups. At this time we have only been able to educate 2.2% of our population. We would like to target several different project areas: Neighborhood Watch, Apartment Watch and Neighborhood Park Watch. We would like to initiate more community events such as Neighborhood Night Out. We also would like to provide more services such as home security surveys and encouraging businesses and local retailers to become involved in Crime Watch and to increase their awareness in crime risks. • We have a variety of needs to be addressed in our contract cities. Each city has its own unique problems. We feel that by focusing on education and encouraging community participation, we may be able to reduce the opportunity for a crime to occur. Neighborhood, Apartment and Park Watch address several different problems occurring in our area including burglaries, thefts, vandalism and assaults. We feel by addressing several different areas, that a greater percentage of people will be educated and it will allow us to get involved in the community in many different ways. Neighborhood Watch and Operation I.D. have been successful throughout the nation, and we feel that by continuing with an already successful project that we will be able to enrich and expand our program. 5 Page 20