In Partnership With the Oklahoma City Police Department
Neighborhood Alliance Presents
OKC Crime Stats Newsletter/Bulletin
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Your Neighborhood Crime Reports
Neighborhood-specific crime reports are produced monthly by the Oklahoma City Police Department. Neighborhood Alliance would like to share the most recent crime data as well as useful information about crime prevention in your neighborhood and in our City.
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OCPD invites you to an informative, solution-based town hall meeting regarding the challenge of Homelessness in OKC. Light dinner will be served from 6:00 - 6:20 pm. Registration required. For questions about this event contact: MSgt Bob Skalla Police Community Relations Officer Robert.skalla@okc.gov 316-5035
WHEN: Tuesday, May 16th, from 6:00-8:00 PM
WHERE: MAPS 4 Senior Wellness Center
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See a life-threatening, dangerous, or violent emergency that requires immediate police response?
DO: Call 911, there's also a text to 911 option in OKC
DON'T: Report to OKCPD social media
DON'T: Call an OKCPD substation (Hefner, Springlake, Bricktown, Southwest, Santa Fe)
DON'T: Contact Crime Stoppers
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Good Neighbors Awards Luncheon |
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OCPD Crime Prevention
Identity Theft
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Identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal information (i.e., your name, address, and social security number) to open credit card accounts, loans, etc., in your name without your permission.
There are a number of ways in which thieves obtain your personal information, including:
- Stealing incoming or outgoing mail.
- Finding old bills or statements while rummaging through trash.
- Stealing computing equipment (laptops, personal computers, mobile devices, etc.) containing consumer information.
- Contacting you directly through social engineering or through e-mail (phishing).
The following three credit reporting bureaus offer products and services designed to help you manage your credit rating as well as your risk of identity theft:
Remember the FACT Act amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act entitles you to one free credit report in a 12-month period. You can learn more about this by visiting www.annualcreditreport.com.
If you believe that you may be a victim of identity theft in Oklahoma City, call 911 or contact the Oklahoma City Police White Collar Crimes Unit at (405) 297-1134.
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Crime Watch Patrollers Appreciation Breakfast |
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Increasingly, businesses are allowing their employees to telecommute and entrepreneurs are running businesses from their homes. Offices are standard in many homes today and are equipped with the latest in computers, scanners, printers, faxes, and other expensive equipment. Remember, it is important to secure yourself and your equipment when you’re working from home.
Safety suggestions:
- Install solid doors and good deadbolt locks on all exterior doors—and use them.
- Hang window treatments that obstruct the view into your office. You don’t want to advertise what equipment you have.
- Consider installing motion-sensor lighting that will come on if someone is walking around your yard.
- Keep bushes and trees trimmed so that you can see into your yard and neighbors can see your house.
- Install a wide-angle viewer in the door of your home office if it is detached from the main house.
- Look into an alarm system.
- Keep a cellular phone handy.
- When meeting a client for the first time, arrange to meet in a public place, such as a coffee shop or the library—not your home.
- Let someone know when and with whom you have appointments.
- Review your insurance policy—almost all policies require an extra rider to cover a home office. In the event something does happen, you want to be covered.
- Mark your equipment with identification numbers and keep an updated inventory list (with photos, if possible) in a home safe or a bank safe deposit box. It’s a good idea to keep backups of your work in a secure, separate location as well.
- Use the same caution with deliveries as businesses do. Anyone making a delivery to your home office should be properly identified before you open the door. Do not let the person enter your home.
Source: ncpc.org
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SAVE THE DATE
2023 Neighborhs Night Out will be Tuesday, September 13.
More details to come!
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Upcoming JumpStart Classes |
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Join us for our New Officer, Neighborhood Organizing, and Procedural Training Session. Class will be online via zoom and meeting details are automatically emailed to you after registration.
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JumpStart for Voluntary
Neighborhood Associations
Date: Monday, May, 3rd
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Virtual class via Zoom
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JumpStart for Mandatory Neighborhood Associations
Date: Wednesday, May, 10th
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Virtual class via Zoom
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Ready to have neighborhood conversations?
Join us in FIREFLY!
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This is a private facebook group where you can ask questions, share, and support each other in our quest to be the best neighborhood leaders we can be. United to support safe, beautiful, and healthy neighborhoods for everyone. |
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