Here are some great tips that were posted by one of our canyon residents:

• Keep doors and windows locked
• Use an alarm system
• Trim bushes and shrubs lower that hide windows
• Install motion metector lights
• Get outside and open curtains to better see what’s going on
• Lock up good when you leave home, most crimes are when you have left your house
• Don’t answer the door without checking to see who it is
• Don’t allow strangers into your house
• Put up signs indicating dog, dog paraphanelia, or have dog
• Secure the rear of your house as you do the front of your house
• Don’t depend on one safety system
• Ask neighbors to watch for suspicious activity, or watch out for you
• Watch for unusual cars hanging around for days
• Log all serialized property and photograph all jewelry and store family valuables off-site
• Don’t telegraph behavior with set routine
• Leave lights on and radio on when gone, you could put radio on timer
• Close and lock garage doors
• Lock up tools that could be used to break into your home (ladder, etc.)
• Be alert
• Don’t try to stop or apprehend a person committing a crime – call 911
• Don’t investigate suspicious activity – call 911

For non-emergencies call Glendale PD at (818) 548-4911

For suspicious vehicles, GPD needs make, model, color, AND LICENSE PLATE #. Also special features like bumper damage, bondo, peeling paint, custom paint job and tell dispatch the direction the car is traveling.

For suspicious people GPD needs as much detail as possible dark skin, light skin, hair color, height and weight approximated AND what they are wearing.

Other resources:
Crimemapping.com for up to the minute crimes in our area.
lacrimestoppers.com (tip line)
818 507-STOP & 800 222-tips (anonymous tip line)
TIPLA@2744637 for texting

There is a Special Meeting tonight hosted by Glenoaks Canyon Homeowners Association (GOCHA) and the Glenoaks Canyon Neighborhood Watch and presented by the Glendale Police Department.

The meeting is tonight, Thursday, March 1st from 6:30pm – 8:00pm at the Joe Bridges Clubhouse in Glenoaks Park.

Please join us and your neighbors and learn how you can protect yourself and help make our canyon a safer neighborhood for all of us at this important meeting.

Click here for more information.

On Tuesday, August 2, 2011 you are invited to come out and celebrate National Night Out with a neighborhood Ice Cream Social at Glenoaks Park.

Hang out with your neighbors and meet your Neighborhood Watch Block Captain and Officer Sue Shine.

Plus…Raffle Prizes! Crafts for Kids! and Giveaways!

Date:     Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Time:    6:00-8:00pm

Where: Glenoaks Park

Click NNO Flier to check more information.

Come join Officer Sue Shine and your Glenoaks Canyon neighbors for a Neighborhood Watch training and burglary prevention meeting.

While the crime in our canyon is extremely low, the Glendale Police Department wants to help us institute a neighborhood watch program so we can keep our canyon safe for all of us.

The meeting will be held on June 29, 2011 at the Joe Bridges Clubhouse in Glenoaks Park.

Agenda:

5:30 – 6:00 Arrive early for introductions

6:00 – 7:00 Burglary prevention slideshow/Crime overview

7:00 – 7:30 What is Neighborhood Watch?

7:30 – 8:00 Meet neighbors and sign up

Click here to see the Flyer.

Come join Officer Sue Shine and your Glenoaks Canyon neighbors for a Neighborhood Watch training and burglary prevention meeting.

While the crime in our canyon is extremely low, the Glendale Police Department wants to help us institute a neighborhood watch program so we can keep our canyon safe for all of us.

The meeting will be held on June 29, 2011 at the Joe Bridges Clubhouse in Glenoaks Park.

Agenda:

5:30 – 6:00  Arrive early for introductions

6:00 – 7:00  Burglary prevention slideshow/Crime overview

7:00 – 7:30  What is Neighborhood Watch?

7:30 – 8:00  Meet neighbors and sign up

Click here to see the Flyer.