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Neighbourhood Support pamphlet, 1983

This Ponsonby Neighbourhood Support pamphlet from the early 1980s promotes a kit which explains how to set up a Neighbourhood Support Group. These groups were at the forefront of an approach to making cities safer. They arose in communities that were sick of increasing crime rates, especially burglary.

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Carl Walrond, Security and personal safety – Safety strategies, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/30948/neighbourhood-support-pamphlet-1983 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 April 2011, updated 1 August 2017.