Horningtoft Homewatch

Co-ordinator John Robertson

Community Policeman 

Horningtoft has now had a Homewatch scheme for many years and it is one of 429 such schemes in Breckland. The scheme is known as Neighbourhood Watch in most other parts of the country with just three counties adopting the Homewatch title, presumably because the counties concerned are mainly rural with few 'neighbourhoods'? Overall, it is the largest voluntary organisation in the United Kingdom and through all its members probably represents the largest single body of people in the country. To learn more go to the National Neighbourhood Watch web site.

Most of the villagers have joined the scheme which offers a purely voluntary membership whereby we all agree to keep a watchful eye on each others property and communal property and to help each other should problems of security arise. Our Community Policeman also covers some 20 other parishes, so he is pretty busy!

In Breckland the Police Crime Prevention Office is based at Thetford and they can be contacted for free advice on house security or other associated matters on telephone number 01842 222608.

Residents of Horningtoft should telephone 999 to report a crime which is being committed, otherwise to report a crime that has happened, telephone 0845 456 4567