Celebrate Safe Communities

Celebrate Crime Prevention and Local Communities Making a Difference; Connect with Your Local Law Enforcement

October is Crime Prevention Month, a time to Celebrate Safe Communities(CSC). Join us this October by registering your local CSC events.

NEW!!!!!! This July 1st is McGruff the Crime Dog's 30th Birthday! Why not make your October celebrations birthday themed?

Long-time partners in crime prevention, the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC), National Sheriffs’ Association(NSA), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) are again teaming up on Celebrate Safe Communities (CSC), an exciting initiative designed to help local law enforcement agencies and their community partners kick off celebrations of Crime Prevention Month every October!


NCPC, NSA and BJA are eager to assist your department in educating, mobilizing, and thanking all the residents, businesses, and others helping to keep your community safe from crime!

CSC is designed to spotlight communities’ crime prevention efforts, enhance public awareness of vital crime prevention and safety messages, and recruit year-round support for ongoing prevention activities that help keep neighborhoods safe from crime and prepared for any emergency. This initiative will help local communities organize safety-focused events. Local CSC activities held in October to coincide with Crime Prevention Month will help Americans of all ages recognize that a safer community is no accident and that crime prevention is everyone’s business every day of the year.


CSC was launched by the National Crime Prevention Council, the National Sheriffs’ Association, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance in 2008 and has since reached over 250 sites in 36 states. Help McGruff the Crime Dog® “Take a Bite Out of Crime” this October by celebrating, renewing or forming new partnerships that help keep our communities safe from crime.

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National Crime Prevention Council: 2345 Crystal Drive Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22202 (202) 466-6272