Proper Use of Phone Tree

TELEPHONE TREE

One of the most important parts of your NEIGHBORHOOD’S SECURITY is to know and stay in contact with your neighbors.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Call 911 for a neighbor if you see them in danger.

2. Call your neighbors (using the PHONE TREE) when you see suspicious activities at a neighbor’s home when you suspect they are not home.

3. Call 911 and your neighbors (using the PHONE TREE) when you see suspicious activities at a neighbor’s home when you know they are not home.

4. More callers + more witnesses = BETTER POLICE RESPONSE.

5. Less urgent problems can be reported to the block watch / neighborhood coordinator for action with South End Neighborhood Council (SENCo), Safe Streets and Park Avenue Neighborhood.

6. Telephone neighbors and tell them of suspicious activities in their neighborhood.

7. CONFIDENTIAL: The telephone tree is a confidential document provided only to the people on the telephone tree. DO NOT give the telephone tree to anyone else.

The telephone tree is one of the most important tools for preventing and stopping crime in your neighborhood. Your neighborhood’s telephone tree becomes even more effective by helping your tree grow block by block.