The Itasca County Sheriff’s Office provides the following house watch service to the residents of Itasca County. If you would like to apply for a house watch, please fill out the House Watch Application and return it to the Itasca County Sheriff's Office.
The following rules will apply; failure to comply will result in dismissal of your house watch:
- The house watch program is available to residents that reside year-round in Itasca County. Any person that has seasonal property or goes out of state for the winter is not eligible for a watch.
- The house watch programs is available if your vacation is longer than 5 days and not longer than 30 days. Any person gone for less than 5 days should have a neighbor/friend watch the residence. Any person gone for more than 30 days should consider having an alarm installed along with a neighbor/friend watching the residence.
- All house watches will be performed when officers have available time.
- Any residence that has an alarm will not be eligible.
- The house watch program requires that access to your property be kept clear and maintained year-round.
- The house watch programs is designed to check for vandalism, property damage, and break-ins.
- In the event that there would be a problem with your residence, we require that a key holder be named to take care of the problem.