The Hassocks Neighbourhood Watch website has been helping the local
community fight crime for the past five and a half years.
A wealth of crime prevention advice, news of local police operations and
events, community contacts, details of current scams, security products
purchase, seasonally related tips on security, Mid Sussex crime statistics
and a current crime alert Blog are amongst the popular website pages.
The site is RSS enabled [
] which allows site users to receive the area's crime alerts automatically
as soon as they're posted. This is an extremely useful facility, for
example, to promptly circulate details of suspicious vehicles and bogus
callers suspected of operating in the area.
The site's administrator, Mike Potter, says: "The site's popularity
has grown rapidly over the years and attracts visitors not just from Sussex,
but worldwide. A program of continuous improvement and utilising
popular trends, such as blogging and RSS feeds, has kept the site at the
forefront."
URL to quote to the public: www.hassocksnhw.org.uk
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Article first added: 20th September 2007
Mike Potter
Administrator
Hassocks Neighbourhood Watch
RSS feed launched on Hassocks Neighbourhood Watch community website 
The Hassocks Neighbourhood Watch website has been helping the local
community fight crime for over four years and has now launched an RSS feed.
By harnessing RSS technology, the site can now provide up-to-the-minute
crime alerts for local residents and businesses. Site visitors can
add the feed to their RSS reader programs and set it to alert them whenever
the feed is updated, thereby enabling users to receive information in a
timely manner. A page has been provided, called What
is RSS? to give details on using the RSS feed facility.
The site's webmaster, Mike Potter, commented: "This feed is
intended to provide the very latest local crime alert information and local
Neighbourhood Watch news, not just for the Hassocks area but for the whole
of Mid Sussex."
Julie-Ann Cole, the Mid Sussex Neighbourhood Watch Secretary said,
"I totally endorse it [the RSS feed] and feel the RSS facility is a
most effective and efficient tool providing valuable dissemination of
information for our members."
Website address to quote to the public: www.hassocksnhw.org.uk
Article first added: 12th October 2006
Mike Potter
Administrator
Hassocks Neighbourhood Watch