Neighbourhood Watch seeks more volunteers
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The Northern Territory manager of Neighbourhood Watch says the group is looking for more people to conduct community patrols in Alice Springs.
Paul Wyatt says community patrollers have had early success, reporting community safety hazards and once alerting emergency services to a fire.
The program, which sees volunteers drive around Alice Springs at night looking for incidents to report to police, has been running in Alice Springs for 12 weeks.
Mr Wyatt says it could still use more volunteers.
"Because we took a little bit longer to establish them than we all thought, we had our initial training sessions early. In hindsight, too early, but we didn't know then so we lost a bit of momentum," he said.
"What we'd like to do is to slowly build that momentum again and we need volunteers to do that."
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