York Community Watch & Crime Prevention

Welcome to York Community Watch and Crime Prevention. We provide support, advice and information to residents and businesses in the York area on all aspects of community safety and crime prevention. Through a range of practical measures we aim to prevent crime, assist the Police in detecting crime and reduce the fear of crime.

As part of our work we provide the following services:

• Information and reference packs for residents and victims of crime
• Low cost personal and property security items
• Long and short-term loans of security equipment
• Free security equipment to repeat victims of crime
• Free personal safety advice and home security checks

Contained on our website are hundreds of useful ideas and free security advice for protecting yourself and your property. To see some of these click here to go to security advice index page.

In addition, we have a large selection of low cost security products. We have products that allow you to protect your car and bikes, your homes and property as well as items for your own personal security. To view a selection of these products click on the item above.

York Community Watch, in conjunction with North Yorkshire Police, provides an automatic communication system to all watch co-ordinators. This is called Ringmaster. If you would like to see how it works please click here. If you already are on Ringmaster and want to get to the message section please click here.