Is there a cost to setting up a Neighbourhood Watch scheme?
Staffordshire Police will help you at no cost. This includes sending warning and appeal messages via the Online Watch Link (OWL) system. Similarly, the literature and window stickers produced by the Home Office are free. However, groups wanting to put up street signs would have to purchase them at their own expense. These are not very expensive. Usually, individual members only have to contribute a couple of pounds. There is a benefit to this in that it gives individual members a sense of ownership. Since they have made a financial contribution to the scheme, there is more of a feeling that it belongs to them.
