National Night Out is a program designed to get the Village’s neighborhoods involved in a “stand against crime in their community.”  This is a four-day event which includes several block parties throughout the Village, attended by Police Officers and Village Officials, a beach party, a car show and a Community Cook Out with many static displays and demonstrations. The event has been a major program for the Police Department over the past several years and has been viewed as a key opportunity to build and enhance the partnership with the citizens of the community.

A key to the success of this program is the involvement not only of Police Department personnel, but volunteers from within the community who assist in a number of ways to ensure that the various events of this program are successful.

An example of this partnership can be seen in the Community Cook Out, where a variety of police agencies hold demonstrations and local police personnel cook up hot dogs for participants. It can be seen throughout the Block Parties, where citizens coordinate a host of activities for neighbors to meet and greet, not only other neighbors but personnel from the Police Department and Village Officials. And finally, it can be witnessed with the National Night Out Car Show, which has garnered so much support that volunteers built and maintain it’s own webpage and the Car Show, along with the Lights and Siren Parade, has become one of the largest car shows in the area! To visit the Lake in the Hills National Night Car Show website, go to http://www.lithcarshow.com/