Community Watch of Bedford County

Areas in Bedford County currently lack any organized crime/neighborhood watches. It is difficult to organize and get involvement for these groups to begin with. Also, with our area being vastly spread out and populated, resources just don’t seem to be available. This is where The Community Watch of Bedford County comes in! Members of this group are everyday citizens going about their everyday business. They want to ensure the safety of their families, neighbors’ and friends’. They want an active line to law enforcement officials in the county and to assure that the crime rate stays low and continues to make Bedford County a great place to raise a family and call “home”.

Make no mistake; this is a massive task at-hand. It’s difficult to organize a small community watch, let alone a whole entire county. It can and will be done though! Future goals of this group include:

Building and maintaining an active, good rapport with law enforcement agencies in our county (Including Bedford, Everett, Saxton, Hopewell Borough Police Departments. Also with the Sheriff’s Department, Pennsylvania State Police, and the Bedford County Drug Task Force.)*

Right now to make this group become successful we need creditable members from all parts of Bedford County. Invite your family, friends and neighbors to join us! Once we develop a good baseline membership, we will begin to develop our relationship with law enforcement of the county. Remember, it’s free to join and doesn’t involve that much time and effort. We recognize that the above mentioned law enforcement officials do a great job serving our community. However, they cannot be all places at all times. This is where you come in and act as eyes and ears of the community. Let’s all join together to make Bedford County even safer. Also, let’s keep it a great place to raise a family as well as retire!