Newsletter -
2004 August
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Merchiston Community Council
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
12 August 2004
Dear Resident,
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH IN ETTRICK
ROAD & LOAN, GILLSLAND ROAD, NAPIER ROAD & LOAN and POLWARTH TERRACE
I am writing to update you on progress with
the above. Our residents meeting on 29 June was very well supported, with
around 50 people attending and a further 20 asking to be kept informed
of developments. The Police were represented by our local Crime Reduction
Officer, PC Jim McKenna and by Community Officers PC Angela Edmunds and
PC Gerry Pullar. Merchiston Local Councillor Sue Tritton was also present,
as was Cllr Marilyne MacLaren of South Edinburgh Crime Prevention Panel.
STREET CO-ORDINATORS
The meeting heard about crime trends in our area and about how the establishment
of a Neighbourhood Watch scheme could help reduce this crime. Accordingly,
it was decided that such a scheme should be set up, in four “divisions”:
Ettrick Road, Gillsland Road, Napier Road and Polwarth Terrace. Each of
these divisions will have a co-ordinator (see overleaf) whose principal
responsibility will be to circulate Police Reports, Newsletters and other
relevant material to residents in their street. This letter will have
come to you via your Street Co-ordinator. It is being sent electronically
to those for whom we have email addresses. If you would like to receive
your copy by email in future, please let your Street Co-ordinator know.
POLICE REPORTS
These will be provided by the Police on an area basis, ie ours will cover
the whole of Merchiston, and will be issued monthly. In addition, there
are plans for a new city-wide Police Bulletin. We’ll keep you posted
on this.
NW NEWSLETTERS
The main ways in which NW works are by:
- the sharing of crime prevention advice & activities
- the promotion of crime prevention equipment
- the identification & targetting of problems in order to deal with
them quickly
and effectively
- looking out for one another
- improving home security
- building two-way communication with the Police
To this end we will hope to produce a NW Newsletter from time to time.
It will probably cover all four streets and, since all of these activities
are being carried out by volunteers, the Newsletter may not appear on
a strictly regular basis. If you have any items that you’d like
to see included, please let me know.
WEBSITE
There is a very good NW website with all sorts of helpful information
about:
- vehicle crime
- bogus callers
- home security
- personal safety
all of which are to a greater or lesser extent problems in our area.
The website is at www.neighbourhoodwatch.net
For anyone who doesn’t have access to
the internet, we can print this information out for you and let you have
it as a paper copy.
GETTING TO
KNOW YOU………..
Finally, several people who attended the inaugural meeting commented that
the social aspect of the event had been both useful and enjoyable. So
we will plan on holding another get-together, perhaps in December.
Meantime, do please contact either your Street
Co-ordinator or me if you have any ideas or suggestions.
Yours sincerely,
Bridget M. Stevens
Chair, Merchiston Community Council
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