Each home will also get an email address for the officer responsible for their street and neighborhood police chiefs will have to hold regular public meetings under the plans, to be rolled out by April.
The £325 million-a-year scheme, one of the UK's biggest shifts from centralized policing, has been drawn up by the Prime Minister and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Under the system, trialed in Lambeth, South London, each council ward will have its own neighborhood policing team, made up of police and community support officers.
Mr. Brown and Mrs. Smith met one of the teams in Clapham, South London today to hear how people would be able to contact and hold their local policing team accountable. The trial has helped contribute to a 0.9 percent overall reduction in crime in the area.
Announcing the measures, Mr. Brown said people want more say in their local policing. He added:
"Whilst crime is falling, too many people have a real fear about their communities and feel detached from their police service.
"That is why we've been working with the police on a new style of policing to address local priorities, improve public confidence and make neighborhoods safer."
He called the new measures a "major step towards a new kind of policing" in which the citizen has "real influence".
A new Web site allowing the public to get the names and numbers of their local team will be launched at the end of next month.
