Guarding the house: Residents of the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem are establishing neighborhood policing.
The need to establish policing arose following the wave of burglaries that have recently hit the neighborhood, especially on weekends. Last Saturday alone, four apartments were broken into. Some of the burglaries occurred while the residents were home.
"The thieves' boldness is increasing," one resident tellsHaredim10. "They enter homes when the residents are there, and in some cases they even beat the household members. Last month, one of the residents needed to be evacuated to intensive care after being severely beaten by the burglars."
In conversation with Haredim10 Says Tsiki Tzur, a resident of the neighborhood and founder of the neighborhood watch: "The watch will restore personal security to the residents of the neighborhood, who have already become accustomed to living in the shadow of break-ins and attacks. We are establishing a complete system in coordination with the police, which will remove the neighborhood and make it difficult for burglars to carry out their plans."
In the initial phase, policing will operate on Saturdays only, by non-Jewish security guards hired from another security company. At the same time, volunteers from the neighborhood will begin to be recruited, who will undergo training within the framework of the Israel Police, with the aim of expanding patrol shifts to all nights of the week.
The initiative is coordinated with the neighborhood rabbis, and is being carried out with their encouragement and blessing. The chairman of the Har-Nof Community Administration, Yaakov Moshe Spitzer, welcomed the organization in a conversation with Haredim10, and said: "We hope that the watch will be established and provide an appropriate response to the security problems in the neighborhood. We support the move and will stand by the activists who are working to advance policing."
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