Crime watch

Crime Watch Daily is an American syndicated investigative news magazine series. Premiering on September 14, 2015, the program is currently hosted by veteran television journalist Chris Hansen. Produced by Telepictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution, it features a mix of investigative reports, true crime stories and caught-on-tape police and security footage.

Watchmen were organized groups of men, usually authorized by a state, government, city, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well as traditionally perform the services of public safety, fire watch, crime prevention, crime detection, recovery of stolen goods. Watchmen have existed since earliest recorded times in various guises throughout the world and were generally succeeded by the emergence of formally organized professional policing.

A Neighbourhood Action Group, or NAG, is a UK initiative, set up to deal with key issues identified by a community's first public consultation. The group is coordinated by the police.This may happen in the form of a public meeting, through surveys done face-to-face or by mail, or a combination of methods. NAGs are volunteer working groups made up of representatives from the community.They will include residents, the police, local authority and other organizations, such as local businesses and schools. Ideally, NAGs represent a cross-section of the society they represent, including representatives from groups such as neighbourhood watch schemes and local councils. They are key to the success of neighbourhood policing as it is this group which will plan on behalf of the community and organise for tasks to be completed. In effect, they are the 'doers', accountable locally for responding to problems a community wants to tackle.

A neighborhood watch or neighborhood watch, also called a crime watch or neighborhood crime watch is an organized group of civilians devoted to crime and vandalism prevention within a neighborhood. The aim of neighborhood watch includes educating residents of a community on security and safety and achieving safe and secure neighborhoods. However, when a criminal activity is suspected, members are encouraged to report to authorities, and not to intervene. In the United States, neighborhood watch builds on the concept of a town watch from Colonial America.