Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office

For more information regarding crime prevention contact Ashley Bailey at (850) 651-7153 or abarrineau@sheriff-okaloosa.org.

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Have you ever been a victim of a crime? Do you know someone who has? Could that crime have been prevented? Probably! The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office offers a wide variety of crime prevention training classes where you are instructed on crime prevention tips for your personal safety and home environment. Our Crime Prevention Practitioner can help employers and employees, friends, neighbors and family members discover new ways to avoid crime instead of reacting to it after it happens. Not only do criminals invade your work environment, they also come to your home. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office offers residential security surveys to help you find the places where your home is vulnerable before the burglar does. Neighborhood Watch Programs are a proven way to detect crime in your neighborhood.  We can't prevent all crime but we can make life extremely difficult for criminals. 

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CHILD SAFETY IDENTITY THEFT RESOURCE CENTER NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION COUNCIL
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NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM 

To Register for Neighborhood Watch contact Ashley Bailey at 651-7153 or E-mail Ashley

How do I start a Neighborhood Watch in my area?

Another way of preventing crime and helping deter it is to be involved in an active Neighborhood Watch Program. Neighborhood Watch was created to obtain citizen involvement in discouraging and preventing residential crime. The program uses citizen involvement to secure their own homes and personal property and to report any suspicious activity to the police. Neighborhood Watch operates to educate participants in the principles of deterrence, delay, and detection. The program depends upon a communication network organized with three levels of participants-- the residents, block captain coordinators, and the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. Vigilante actions are in no way condoned. No one is asked to take a personal risk or be a hero. Since its creation about ten years ago, Neighborhood Watch has brought a dramatic drop in the local residential crime rate. If you would like information on our Neighborhood Watch Program or would like to start one in your neighborhood, please call Ashley Bailey at (850) 651-7513.

The Sheriff's Office also offers free residential and commercial security surveys. These surveys are confidential and give the homeowner and business owner a new way of detecting potential weak areas that the burglar might use to their advantage. The surveys cover the landscaping, lighting, locks, and a number of other items.

 Be prepared; get the knowledge you need to fight back! For more information on Crime Prevention contact Ashley Bailey at (850) 651-7153.

Look at your home through a burglar's eyes. Does it look like an easy target? Are there obvious security weaknesses?

It is easy to identify most security weaknesses around your home. To supplement your survey and for more complicated security problems, contact our Crime Prevention Specialist, Ashley Bailey at 651-7153 and ask about a free home security survey. At your request we will survey your home and give you cost effective security recommendations.

The Sheriff's Office offers training classes tailored to individual needs. The following are some of the courses that are offered free of charge!


The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is providing free firearm safety kits to local residents through a partnership with Project ChildSafe, the nationwide firearms safety education program. Project ChildSafe, a program developed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), will distribute millions of firearm safety kits over the next year. The program is funded by a U.S. Department of Justice grant, with additional funding provided by the firearms industry.  If you would like a ChildSafe Firearm safety kit call 651-7153.

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PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. Check Your Credit
     
Order Credit Report Report Fraud Web Site
Equifax 800-685-1111 www.equifax.com
Experian 888-379-3742 www.experian.com
Trans Union 800-888-4213 www.tuc.com

2. Verify Your Earnings 
       
Social Security Administration 800-772-1213 www.ssa.gov

3. FTC Identity Theft 
FTC Identity Theft Hotline 1-877-438-4338 www.consumer.gov/idtheft
FTC Help 1-877-382-435 www.FTC.gov

4. Report Investment Fraud    
Report Investment Fraud 202-942-7040 www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml
Report Scams/Fraud 866-966-7226
(Attorney General's Office)

5. Consumer Product Safety
Consumer Product Safety 800-638-2772

6. See Clearing Information from your computer's hard drive:        www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig/hq/harddrive.pdf

7. To get on No Calls Solicitation Call List for residential, mobile, or telephonic paging device, contact the Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services at P.O. Box 6700, Tallahassee, Florida 32314-6700. Send $10 for each number you want protected. Renews for $5 each year thereafter.

8. To block the DMV giving out your personal information:

Go to www.hsmv.st.fl.us. Click on online driver's license and check to verify that your license is valid. Then click on "Block" to prevent your information from being given out.

9. To OPT OUT of the following:
FTC List 888-382-1222 www.ftc.gov/donotcall
TTY# 866-290-4236 www.thedma.org/consumers/offtelephonelist.html
Prescreened Credit Card Offers 888-567-8688
Direct Mail www.the-dma.org/consumers/offmailinglist.html

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.800helpfla.com

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Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office
1250 North Eglin Parkway
Shalimar, FL 32579
(850) 651-7400