About ECHO

If you are interested in joining or helping the ECHO Board of Directors with membership, annual picnic, covenant enforcement, newsletter publication/contributions, advertising, etc. please contact any ECHO Board member or email us at the link above.

If you have any photos of El Camino activities (Parks, Picnics, etc.) that you would be willing to share, please email them to jeff@elcaminohomeowners.org so we can post them on the website for other users to see and enjoy.

We have provided the El Camino Property Crime Statistics for 2003 through 2007 in the document file below.  We thank the Pueblo Police Department for providing the information and Detective Jeff Shay for preparing the statistics report.  The statistics show the number of property crime reports per street, per month, and per offense category. 

Even though our property crime rates are well below most areas within the City of Pueblo, they could be even lower if we would all work together in crime prevention.  Please follow these helpful tips from the Pueblo Police Department and help us continue to keep El Camino one of the safest neighborhoods in the city;

• Park your vehicles in the garage, not in the driveway, and especially not in the street.  Nearly all property crimes involving vehicles occur when they are parked on the street or in a driveway.

• Don't leave your garage door open and unattended if it isn't necessary, your items could disappear within seconds (example - while you are in the backyard mowing your lawn).   Criminals drive around areas such as ours just looking for opportunities like an open garage door with nobody close by.  The criminals will usually circle the block just to make sure it is all clear before they dash in and grab what they can.

• Most importantly, never leave your garage door partially open.  You may think that it's necessary to do this to give your pets access or let the summer heat out of your garage, but it definitely isn't worth the risk.  If your garage door is open even a few inches, a thief can easily pry it open with a long steel bar.

• Always lock all of your doors, windows, and gates.  Home Invasions are becoming more and more popular these days.  Criminals knock on the front door (usually at night) and as soon as you open it they rush into your house with force.  So always keep your storm door locked in an effort to defeat this tactic.

• Watch out for each other.  If you spot a suspicious vehicle or suspicious activity in the neighborhood or juveniles in the parks after curfew, call the Pueblo Police immediately.  These types of police calls are a low priority, so the sooner you call, the sooner the response - which may be a while.  The best thing you can do is to be a good witness, the more details that you can provide to the police, the better the chance that the suspects will be caught and the crime can be solved.

• The single most important detail you can give the police regarding a suspicious or suspect vehicle is the license plate information.  So try to get the license plate number before you worry about getting the make, model and color.

• Keep your property well lit at night.  Statistics show that criminals avoid well lit areas for fear of being detected.

• Advise your teenagers not to drive around the neighborhood with the car stereo volume up to a point where others can hear it.  It is not only a nuisance, but it alerts criminals that you have a car stereo worth stealing.  Criminals remember the vehicles they target and will often follow them home to get an address, then they usually return and commit the theft at a later time.

• El Camino is famous for having dazzling holiday light displays and holiday lawn decoration thefts have increased in the past few years.  When you put up your lawn decorations, position them closer to your house, most decorations that are stolen or damaged have been located near the street.  Also, secure your lawn decorations with long lawn stakes or affix them to a permanent object.  Write your last name with a permanent marker in big letters on the back of your inflatable lawn decorations - thieves usually won't take things that are easily identified as someone else's property.

Property crimes are generally crimes of opportunity and can usually be prevented.  The El Camino Homeowners Organization is taking a proactive approach to this matter and will soon be installing surveillance cameras at all 3 entrances to the El Camino Community.  These cameras will not only assist law enforcement by recording suspect vehicle information, statistics show that they will deter most criminals from targeting our community altogether.  This project was funded by ECHO member dues, so please remember to pay your dues every year so we can help each other keep our community safe.  We could do so much more if everyone just paid their $20 dues every year.  Please encourage non-paying neighbors to help fund projects like these by paying their annual dues.

In addition, the Pueblo Municipal Ordinances, Traffic Code, and Park Regulations are posted on the Covenants page.  So please refer to these documents for any complaints that are not covered by the covenants.

Police/Fire/Ambulance - Emergency Services: 911          Non-Emergency: 553-2538

Pueblo Crime Stoppers: 542-7867

Pueblo Code Enforcement: 553-2592