Old Brookville forum on crime prevention

Old Brookville will host a meeting Tuesday on crime prevention and safety for residents, the first information session of its kind, village officials said.

The meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall on McCouns Lane, comes amid a reported rise in burglaries in Nassau County, police Commissioner Matthew Schamroth wrote in a letter to residents. He added, however, that Old Brookville itself has not experienced a comparable increase.

Residents will learn to be proactive amid “alarming crime trends occurring in the communities adjacent to our bucolic village,” Schamroth wrote.

Representatives of the Old Brookville Police Department as well as security industry experts are expected to attend the meeting to advise residents on how best to protect themselves and their properties, officials said.

The proposed shuttering of Nassau police’s Sixth Precinct could potentially mean a greater increase in crime, Schamroth wrote in his letter.

“We should not allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security and we cannot ignore what is happening around us,” he wrote.