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Our Vision
Piedmont Pines will be a scenically beautiful, diverse community dedicated to quality schools, neighborhood safety and living in harmony with our natural environment.

Crime Prevention

Initiatives
Piedmont Pines is engaged with two companies to help deter crime in our boundaries. 
Bay Alarm is offering private patrol and response in Piedmont Pines. Service can include Agent Response to an activated alarm, Vacation Watch, Security Escort and Random Patrol (currently on some of the streets). If you are contingent to a neighborhood already subscribing to this service, you can join the group for $30 per month. If you are not contingent to these neighbors/streets, you’ll need to gather up enough interested households to create a “street group.” You can also sign individually for some of the services. For more information, contact Bay Alarm Sales Manager Limor Margalit (limor.margalit@bayalarm.com) 

Through Montclair Safety and Improvement Council, Logitech is offering discounted home security camera packages to all Montclair residents. The price depends on the number and type of cameras you order.  General camera information is available at: http://buy.logitech.com/store/logib2c/Content/pbPage.AlertSystem

MSIC also maintains a crime alert list serve, which has become increasingly valuable as a way for residents to report and follow suspicious activity and actual crimes.  Join this list serve to track what’s Montclair neighbors are seeing and suspecting:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/montclairsic/join.  You’ll need to set up a Yahoo account, but that’s pretty simple.

PPNA recommends each neighborhood set up its own list-serve to alert one another about crime issues and other breaking news.  For help setting one up in your neighborhood, contact info@piedmontpines.org
After falling victim to a recent burglary, Piedmont Pines resident Derek Garnier put together a very extensive blog on how to secure your home, how to deter intruders and how to recover from a break-in.  Check out this wealth of research and information at http://megamegaultra.com/security/ 

Here are some other helpful links:

http://gismaps.oaklandnet.com/crimewatch/:  Oakland Police Department’s crimemapping website.  You can request crime data by proximity to an address or known location, such as a school. You will then be able to produce maps and/or reports from this information.
Organize Neighborhood Watch Training
Oakland Police direct link:  www.oaklandpolice.com


Reporting criminal or suspicious activity

OPD assigns resources based on incidents, so it’s critical that all suspicious activity be reported and become part of OPD’s database.

If you see a crime in process, call 9-1-1. If calling from a cell phone within Oakland, call 510-777-3211. These are emergency-only numbers.

To report criminal or suspicious activity that is not life-threatening or is after the fact, call 510-777-3333. This is the Oakland Police Department non-emergency number.

If you see a crime in progress in an East Bay Regional Park, call 510-881-1121 for emergencies and 510-881-1833 for non-emergencies.

You may also fill out an online Citizen Police Report to the City for the following types of incidents:

    • Lost Property
    • Vehicle Burglary
    • Theft
    • Vehicle Tampering
    • Vandalism

To determine if the online Citizen Police Report is right for you confirm that:

    • this is not an emergency
    • this incident occurred within the City limits
    • there are no known suspects
    • this did not occur on a state freeway
If you want to know what documentation from the City you should expect solicitors to have when they visit your home or stop you in the Village, or you want to know what is required to hold an event on your street, review the MSIC Solicitation Permit information.

Protect yourself and your neighborhood

For a list of helpful suggestions go to the Crime Tips page created by OPD. 

Here’s how every resident can help prevent or reduce crime in our neighborhoods:

    • Organize your neighborhood so you all know one another and know who belongs and doesn’t
    • Sign your neighborhood up for Neighborhood Watch training so you’ll know how to protect   yourself and  how to respond to suspicious or threatening activity.
    • Clean out your garage and pull your cars off the street, away from roaming vandals.
    • Discourage solicitors, who too frequently are imposters casing out neighborhoods. Post a “No   Solicitors” sign at your driveway, and turn them away at your door, especially if they have no   permit.
    • Join the MSIC Yahoo Groups site to see reports on potential and actual criminal activity that   may not have been reported to the police. You can also post your own information about   criminal or safety issues on this site.