Crime Prevention Services Include:1) Community Watch: A program where a Crime Prevention Officer comes to your neighborhood once a month for three consecutive months. Each meeting lasts approximately forty-five minutes. We discuss with you personal protection while at home, work and on the road. Things you need to keep in the trunk of your car (spare tire, fire extinguisher, spare keys, tools, etc.). Home security - locks, lighting, shrubbery, etc. Fraud - how to prevent becoming a victim and other useful information.
2) Security Check: A Crime Prevention Officer come to your home or business, checks your security and makes inexpensive recommendations to help you better secure your home/business. We check your doors, locks, strike plates, hinges, windows, lighting and landscaping as well as answer any questions on security you might have. We type all information in our computer and send you a copy. This information is kept confidential.
3) CPTED: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design teaches how to best utilize crime prevention information when drawing up the rough draft on a home or business.
4) Extra Patrol: If you are going out of town on vacation or if you are having problems in your neighborhood, you can contact a Patrol Officer or call Crime Prevention for an extra patrol check. We will take down the information we need; dates, times, etc., and Patrol will check your home when possible.
5) Operation Identification: A program where we describe to you the importance of marking your valuables with your NC drivers license number so that if found, we can locate you to return your property. (Usually discussed at Community Watch meetings and security checks).
6) Construction Security: Advises owners of the places to mark their heavy equipment, tools and other equipment with their Owner Applied Number and find serial numbers that are hidden in case other serial numbers are removed.
7) Elder Crime Prevention: Teaching elderly to spot con artists, watch their personal possessions and protect themselves.
8) Vehicle/Personal Protection: Teaches the importance of being aware of potential situations and how to avoid them. Deals with the prevention of carjacking, theft, sexual assault, also discussions on how to get out of the truck if locked in, mace, and other weapons as well as safety in home and out.
9) Seat Belt Safety: Crime Prevention Officers check drivers for seat belt usage at different locations around the county. If the driver is wearing a seat belt he gets a bag of information. If they are not wearing a seat belt they get a warning.
10) Child ID: Kid care. Ways to help you identify your child. We also tell you the things you need to keep with the kid care packet that we might need.
11) Sheriff Office Tours: Groups of people tour the Sheriff's Office, learn about all of the different jobs we do and, if possible, meet the Sheriff.
12) P.A.C.: Teaches workers how to stop crime in the work place and how to report crime to supervisors, law enforcement or Crime Stoppers if they wish to remain anonymous.
13) Business Crime: Teaches owners and managers how to prevent business crime. Covers the laws that deal with employee theft, breaking or entering, and shoplifting.
Contact Info
Sgt. Steve Oxner (828) 250-4547 steve.oxner@buncombecounty.org
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