{"id":14025,"date":"2019-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/virk-nagrannavarsla-liklega-til-ad-faekka-afbrotum\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:02:20","slug":"effective-neighbourhood-watch-is-likely-to-reduce-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/virk-nagrannavarsla-liklega-til-ad-faekka-afbrotum\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective neighbourhood watch likely to reduce crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Report crimes to 112 and avoid negative discussion on<br \/>\nsocial media.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It has proven that<br \/>\nAn active neighbourhood watch reduces burglaries, vandalism and graffiti. Residents<br \/>\nto pay closer attention to their local environment, and everyone sees their benefit in that cooperation.<br \/>\nIn recent days, there have been quite a few incidents of vandalism, particularly in certain areas.<br \/>\nneighbourhoods. All acts of vandalism and crime should be reported directly to the police by telephone.<br \/>\n112. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is the police's duty to investigate crimes such as<br \/>\nvandalism and it is therefore important that notifications are sent directly to them in this way<br \/>\nthat action can be taken with increased visibility and increased policing on<br \/>\nthe area in order to eradicate the problem. In all cases, it is necessary to<br \/>\nto report an offence so that it is documented, but all offences that are recorded<br \/>\ncall for some kind of response. The response depends on the extent and nature and<br \/>\nSometimes the local authority has to respond with increased lighting in an area,<br \/>\ninstallation of security cameras or a change to accessibility or the environment. Negative discussion on<br \/>\non social media, on neighbourhood pages and elsewhere, which may even include the publication of names<br \/>\nand the portrayal of individuals serves no one's interests and can even<br \/>\nwarned of a breach of data protection laws. Such footage should instead be handed directly to the police or the local school where the offences are taking place.<br \/>\nSometimes it is about minors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you want to set up<br \/>\nNeighbourhood watch in your house or your street\/neighbourhood?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first step is to get residents to sign up for the participation list.<br \/>\nand choose a group leader. For effective neighbourhood watch to be in place, a minimum of<br \/>\n70% residents of a house\/street\/neighbourhood to participate. Experience shows that it is more effective to<br \/>\norganise neighbourhood watch in smaller areas, e.g. on a single street or covering<br \/>\none block of flats. What are the neighbours' thoughts on neighbourhood watch? Speak to 3-5<br \/>\nneighbours and see if there is any interest in the matter. If there is interest, there is<br \/>\nIt is timely to proceed, gather signatures, hold a launch event and apply.<br \/>\ninstallation of a neighbourhood watch sign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"\/en\/ibuar\/umhverfid\/neighbourhood-watch\/\" class=\"internal\">Find out more about neighbourhood watch<\/a> &nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tilkynnum afbrot \u00ed 112 og for\u00f0umst neikv\u00e6\u00f0a umr\u00e6\u00f0u \u00e1 samf\u00e9lagsmi\u00f0lum. \u00dea\u00f0 hefur s\u00fdnt sig a\u00f0 virk n\u00e1grannavarsla f\u00e6kkar innbrotum, skemmdarverkum og veggjakroti. \u00cdb\u00faar fylgjast betur me\u00f0 n\u00e6rumhverfi s\u00ednu og allir sj\u00e1 hag sinn \u00ed \u00feeirri samvinnu. S\u00ed\u00f0ustu daga hefur nokku\u00f0 bori\u00f0 \u00e1 skemmdarverkum, s\u00e9r \u00ed lagi \u00ed \u00e1kve\u00f0num hverfum. \u00d6ll skemmdarverk og afbrot skal tilkynna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14025"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}