The Prince George RCMP hosted a Block Watch Part at Shas Ti Kelly Road yesterday (Saturday).
This was one of four Block Watch Parties to be put on by the RCMP, each of them encompassed different parts of the city.
“We’re trying to re-engage with our Block Watch programs that we’ve had in the community for many years,” said Sgt. Craig Douglass.
“What we’ve done this year, in an effort to re-engage, is host four large Block Watch parties where we’re dividing essentially the City up into four and inviting the Block Watch programs in those areas to come out to meet us, and to engage with us so we can move forward and build with them.”
Douglass said about 2,000 homes were invited to the parties across the community.
“We are relatively small compared to, there’s 24,000 residences in Prince George, and we can’t be everywhere at once,” he said.
“It’s important that we engage the eyes of the community to help us identify problem areas and problem people, and as crimes happen and and report them, we are never too busy to take a call.”
Douglass said the goal moving forward is to move away from doing the bigger parties, and have smaller block watch parties.
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