TRCA Community Blog

The TRCA is hosting a National Night Out (NNO) event on August 4, 2007, 7:00 pm @ Angel Park.  We are teaming with the Alexandria Police and Fire Departments in this unique crime prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch.  See http://www.nationalnightout.org/nno/about.html for additional information regarding NNO.   Our tentative plans include a cookout, police presentations, and maybe even a fire truck or two in what will certainly be a great way to spend a summer evening.   Additional details will be posted on our blog and emailed in the coming weeks.

NNO can benefit neighborhoods in numerous ways, including:

• Creating greater community awareness about crime and its prevention
• Bringing neighbors closer together
• Increasing neighborhood reporting of crime and suspicious activities/people
• Serving as a warning to criminals that neighbors are united and organized
• Providing residents with access to law enforcement information, especially local crime trends and patterns
• Introducing neighbors to police officials and department points of contact

One simple, effective way to discourage criminal activity is reporting street light outages:

• Dominion Virginia Power is responsible for fixing our street lights.
• Call 888-667-3000 to report them (or any other outage); be sure to provide Dominion the series of numbers printed on each pole.

For any non-emergency reporting or to follow-up on past neighborhood crime issues, you may call 703-838-4444.  If you like, you may ask for our Neighborhood Patrol Officer, Juan Torres.  For any emergency, dial 911 immediately.

Finally, some helpful websites with area crime information include:

• http://alexandriava.gov/police
• www.crimereports.com – An online crime database (simply search by address and it will display a surrounding area map)
• https://enews.alexandriava.gov/index.php?CCheck=1 – Subscribe to eNews, which can include Police news releases