Online registration for community messaging
This form is NOT monitored continuously 24 hours a day.
Enquiry emails
We will action your request within 24 hours of its receipt. If your email needs to be forwarded to a specialist department we will do that within 24 hours, that specialist department may not be able to respond right away. Some specialist departments only work office hours.
PLEASE NOTE - We CANNOT handle operational, or immediate issues or crime reporting via this form. If you need to contact a police officer and your enquiry is non-urgent please call 101 or if you are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech impairment a textphone is available on 18001 101 and for emergencies 80999. If you need to contact the police in an emergency please dial 999.
If you wish to report a non-emergency crime please use the non-emergency crime reporting site.
(All fields must be completed unless marked 'optional').
This is the online registration form for community messaging, if you live in Devon or Cornwall.
About yourself
The first part of the form asks for personal information
Our Community Messaging Service is designed to send messages that are beneficial to a wide variety of people. Therefore, to ensure that you receive the type of messages appropriate to your needs, we require specific information about yourself. The ‘about yourself’ section of the contact details is for you to provide us with this information.
Watch scheme
The second part of the form asks which watch schemes you belong to if any
The watch scheme / role corresponds to one of the following categories of watch:
Animal Watch, Business Watch, Eating Establishments, General Public, Local Alerts, Places of Worship, Health Watch, Holiday Watch, Leisure Facilities, Licensed Premises, School Watch, Shop Watch, Vehicle Watch and Vulnerable/Elderly.
Each of these watches have several sub-groupings, to ensure that you are associated with the most appropriate grouping, the ‘additional info’ box is supplied.
Examples:
- ‘Watch’ = General Public & ‘Additional Info’ = Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator
- ‘Watch’ = Eating Establishments & ‘Additional Info’ = Indian Restaurant (Licensed), with take away
When do you want us to call?
In this third section it is important for you to let us know when it is OK to call you. During the week we will contact you on the telephone number provided in the contact details section. If you wish to be contacted on a different number at the weekend then please use the box provided. If possible indicate all times using the 24-hour clock.
Examples:
- Earliest: 0900 & Latest: 2300.
- Earliest: 0930 & Latest: 2000 - Weekend different phone: Earliest: 1000 & Latest: 1300
- Earliest: 0930 - 1300 & Latest: 1400 - 1700 (This indicates a lunch break or other period when you cannot be contacted)