Presentation provided by the Town of Danville Police Chief, Allan Shields, on the recent community burglaries.
Build relationships with neighbors, creating a habit of looking out for each other and implementing preventive measures with alarms as an essential first action and priority.
- Alarms and cameras with monitoring service, motion detectors and remembering to set alarms.
- Lighting the landscape of homes.
- Trimming trees and bushes around home for clearance and visibility.
- If you see something, say something, and call/text 911 in the event of an emergency, or Dispatch at 925-820-2144.
- For safety reasons, please do not follow and chase after with your vehicle or engage with anyone leaving a residential burglary.
- Adding additional cameras for the Wood Ranch community is being reviewed, please continue to check the website for updates.
A question was asked last night at the meeting about how many residential burglaries there have been in total. Please see the map and information below.
All residential burglaries from February 7, 2018, to February 7, 2023, found a total of six cases (the two icons on the lower right of the map are stacked on top of one another).
A breakdown of the thefts by month and year (represents the month and year the crime was reported):
- 2018 – 0
- 2019 – 3 (February, September, October)
- 2020 – 1 (February)
- 2021 – 0
- 2022 – 0
- 2023 – 2 (January – Both)