One of the priorities of Neighbourhood Watch Ku-ring-gai & Hornsby is to help educate residents, businesses and visitors in the area about Crime Prevention.

There’s tons of useful crime prevention advice on the internet. The best comes from the NSW Police and we’ll point you to their website every time.

Neighbourhood Watch Ku-ring-gai & Hornsby have created their our own materials to fill a gap in the information easily available to residents. These materials can be downloaded as pdfs, then saved to your computer for later printing.

The “Our 20 Favourite Crime Prevention Tips” series

• Please select the TOPIC page for all of the ‘Our 20 Favourite Crime Prevention Tips’ series sorted by Topic.
• Please select the ENGLISH page for all of the ‘Our 20 Favourite Crime Prevention Tips’ series available in English.
• Please select the HINDI page for all of the ‘Our 20 Favourite Crime Prevention Tips’ series available in Hindi.
• Please select the ITALIAN page for all of the ‘Our 20 Favourite Crime Prevention Tips’ series available in Italian.
• Please select the SIMPLIFIED page for all of the ‘Our 20 Favourite Crime Prevention Tips’ series available in Simplified Chinese.
• Please select the TRAD page for all of the ‘Our 20 Favourite Crime Prevention Tips’ series available in Traditional Chinese.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

We invite you to view all the answers to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that Neighbourhood Watch Ku-ring-gai & Hornsby have collated over the years. All of the FAQs are typical questions that our volunteers have been asked by residents at community events. We feel that the answers contain important information that should be shared with the wider community.

Please select the FAQs page.

How to Report Crime

We invite you to read ‘Reporting Crime in Ku-ring-gai‘, a leaflet produced by Ku-ring-gai Council in conjunction with the Ku-ring-gai Police Area Command and Neighbourhood Watch Ku-ring-gai & Hornsby. It is also available in several languages other than English: Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish.

Please select the Reporting CRIME page.

Crime Prevention on the Internet

Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) Ku-ring-gai & Hornsby is proud to have created the WatchOut! website. WatchOut! is your ‘one-stop-shop’ for crime prevention information on the internet. It has an A-to-Z index to help you navigate your way through all the useful links.

Please select the WatchOut! page.

‘The new website WatchOut! is a great idea. We all know that putting effort into prevention is way better than dealing with the consequences’ – Liz, Wahroonga.

How Safe is My Place?

Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) NSW has a fun, interactive, family-friendly app designed to help you learn how to make your home more secure from break-in. 

Their online “How Safe Is My Place” tool [UNDER CONSTRUCTION] asks you a series of questions to get you thinking about the security of your home, coupled with hints and tips for things you can actively do to reduce the risk of your home being broken into and thieves stealing your stuff.

The quiz is based on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles. And it’s not just about installing security equipment. Crime prevention can be as simple as putting a piece of dowel in the track of your sliding door.

Take the “How Safe Is My Place” quiz! Neighbourhood Watch NSW will send you all of your results so that you can prioritise your steps, and send you their Top 5 simplest tips for making your home more secure, that you can implement straight away.