Rancho Bernardo’s RSVP Needs Volunteers

Posted on September 24, 2012

Residents 50 years of age or older are invited to give back to their community by volunteering to join the Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol (RSVP), an organization that helps prevent crime by serving as eyes and ears for the police and by performing non-confrontational tasks that police officers may not have the time or staffing to do.

Uniformed RSVP officers keep a watchful eye on their neighborhoods in patrol cars equipped with police radios Monday through Saturday. They check homes where owners are away on vacation, visit elderly shut-ins six days a week, prepare photo and fingerprint I.D. cards for local youngsters, and do more than 30 other types of tasks to assist local police and sheriffs departments.

Applicants are asked to work three days a month and are given 40 hours of classroom training and 40 hours of field training. More information and applications can be obtained by phoning the RSVP office, located above Rancho Bernardo’s library, at 858-538-8146.