THE Bellarine Police Community Support Register is a confidential register of personal information that is voluntarily provided by people living on the Bellarine Peninsula, in conjunction with Bellarine police.
It costs nothing to register, just a few moments to complete a registration form. Joining the community register can provide registrants, their relatives and friends with greater peace of mind.
The information provided is stored on a confidential database. It can only be accessed by the police and other emergency services in order to assist approved authorities with information required during medical or other emergencies.
Registrants are issued with an ID card along with a sticker for the front door.
In the event of an emergency, or when a family member or neighbour cannot contact a person, the police are able to use the database to contact next of kin or visit the home to check that they are OK.
With the winter and colder weather some of our Bellarine residents won’t be getting out as much and may feel a bit isolated.
To counter this, the register offers a phone service where volunteers call the registrants who request it and keep in contact regularly just checking if things are OK.
Sadly, for some this is often the only contact they might have with another person that day.
The register has a team of 25 dedicated police-approved volunteers who work from the Bellarine Police Station at Ocean Grove every weekday morning.
If you know someone who would benefit from the services provided by the Bellarine Police Community Support Register, please tell them, or contact the organisation for more information and a registration form.
Check out www.bellarineregister.org.au
