Community and neighborhood safety begins with personal safety and responsibility. Part of being safe is knowing what possible dangers or hazards there are and taking steps to prevent crime and protect yourself.

A few tips that you can take to help prevent crime.

• LIGHT UP dark or secluded areas around the house.
• Leave your FRONT PORCH LIGHT ON through the night.
• TRIM BUSHES to limit hiding places.
• KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS, at least the neighbors on each side of you.
• Be AWARE AND ALERT. Know the cars and the people that are normally on your street.
• REPORT suspicious activities to the police at 503 823-3333 (non-emergency).

Neighborhood Emergency Teams (NETs) are citizens trained by Portland Fire & Rescue to provide emergency disaster assitance within their own neighborhoods. NET members receive basic training on how to save lives and property until the professionals arrive They have the skills to help their neighbors without getting hurtt themsleves. Portland Fire & Rescue currently certifies about 130 NET volunteers annually.

Participants must complete seven training sessions and a disaster simulation exercise. The course covers disaster awareness and preparedness, disaster medicine, search and rescue, and team organization and operations.

Portland Fire & Rescue wants to train and help organize a NET for every neighborhood. [more information]

F.E.M.A. The Federal Emergency Management Agency - an independent agency reporting to the President and tasked with responding to, planning for, recovering from and mitigating against disaster. Here you can find helpful information pertaining to large-scale disasters.

Portland Police This web site offers a wide variety of useful material, articles like home protection, problem solving resource, crimemappers and much more.

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