Councillor Gomes pushes for more neighborhood crime watch groups and signs

New Bedford City Councillor at-Large Brian Gomes filed the following motion to be presented at the New Bedford City Council session scheduled for 25 January, 2018:

Councillor Gomes, requesting, that the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods, meet with a Representative from the Mayor’s Office, Police Chief Cordeiro, the Community Development Director Patrick Sullivan, the President of Neighborhoods United and Chairs from neighborhood crime watch groups from across the City, for the purposes of discussing the creation of new neighborhood crime watch signs; these new signs will be placed in all present areas that have crime watch groups and awarded to new neighborhood crime watch groups that organize and participate in making their neighborhoods safer across the City.