This is the official page of the Parkersburg and Wood County (West Virginia) Neighborhood Watch Co-op. Our organization is chartered by the Parkersburg Police Department and Wood County Sheriff’s Office to organize and coordinate the activities of all the Neighborhood Watch Groups in Parkersburg and the surrounding unincorporated areas of Wood County. While at the present time there are a
few local groups and some individuals who claim to be Neighborhood Watch (or walking patrol or something similar), only the chartered members of the Co-op are recognized by local law enforcement. The Neighborhood Watch Co-op (NHWC) is a small group of citizens dedicated to the control, management, maintenance, and most importantly, the implementation of and the transition to the concept of Community-Oriented policing in the city of Parkersburg. The organization of the committee is based on the geographic distribution of all of the approximately seventy neighborhood watches in the city. The geographic boundaries are determined by the postal ZIP Code regions of the city. There are more Neighborhood Watch groups in some ZIP Code areas than others, primarily because of the size of the land mass, and secondly because of citizen interest. The NHWC President is the guiding force of the NHWC. This individual works almost daily with the Parkersburg Police Department to understand, relate, and communicate the focus, direction, needs, and desires of the entire city-wide community to the police department in order to complement the partnership between the police and the citizens. In addition, the president must direct monthly committee meetings, appoint sub-committees to address specific problems and concerns, and generally exhibit administrative characteristics that command respect and direct the orderly fashion of business as it is required. A Neighborhood Watch is a group of concerned citizens in a small geographic region of a community who are organized, committed, informed, and structured in a hierarchy of blockwatcher, zone or block captains, and a watch coordinator. For more information, go to https://pkb-wood-neighborhoodwatch.org/about.html
