Barrington Farms Neighborhood Association is currently seeking a resident who wants to lead this committee.  Please contact the BFHOA Board if you're interested. Here is some background information from the City of Roswell on what a watch program does:

Watch Groups
A watch group is an important tool families can use to protect their neighborhood against burglars and other criminal intruders. A watch group is simply a number of neighbors joining together to keep an eye open for suspicious person and activities.

Ideally, families should form watch groups by becoming acquainted with their neighbors across the street, on both sides, and to the rear. They should learn each other's living patterns, such as when family members are usually home, which members go to which schools, and when a family will be leaving to go on a trip or on a vacation.

Then, neighbors can work together to protect their home through vigilance. For example, those persons who are home during the day know that something may be wrong if they see people around a home when family members are usually absent. If one family will be gone on business or for a weekend, they can ask one of the others to pick up their newspapers and their mail to give their house a lived-in appearance. By cooperation in the area of security, neighbors have a no-cost device to help protect their homes and property from criminals. At the first sign of anything out of the ordinary, the police should be called.

For information about our local neighborhood security program, please visit Crime Watch.

Common Situations
Some common situations that could mean trouble include:

• A stranger entering your neighbor's house when it is unoccupied.
• Anyone removing car accessories, license plates, or gasoline.
• Anyone peering into parked cars.
• Apparent business transactions conducted from a vehicle.
• Anyone loitering around schools, parks, secluded areas, or on the street.
• Any vehicle moving slowly and without lights or one following an apparently aimless course.
• Vehicles containing one or more persons parked at unusual hours.
• Vehicles being loaded with valuables in front of an unoccupied house.
• The sound of breaking glass or a loud explosive noise.
• Persons being forced into vehicles.
• Someone going door-to-door who tests the door to see if it is locked, or who goes around to the side or to the back of the house.
• Someone waiting in front of a house when it is unoccupied.
• Open doors or broken windows at an unoccupied house.
• Continuous repair operations at a nonbusiness location.
• A delivery man with a wrong address.