This is a community initiative which aims to improve community involvement and awareness by working together with the police. The Chairperson is David Raphael. Residents are urged to join the NHW (free membership) and help make Observatory a safer environment. Please ensure you know your sub-sector leader.
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COMMUNITY POLICE FORUMS (CPFs) AND SUB-FORUMS
Community Police Forums (CPFs)
Each SAPS police station has a Community Police Forum working with it to handle relations with the local community for which it is responsible. The forums are democratically elected committees made up of representatives from all parts of the community – residents businesses, schools, places of worship and other social entities – together with the station commander and any other SAPS representatives.
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Read more... [CPF and CPSF's: A brief Overview]
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BACKGROUND
People living on the street in our area commit offences in terms of the City’s ‘Nuisance’ By-law on a daily basis, but no action is taken – at least not in Observatory. Organisations working with street people (including The Haven) all agree that a ‘carrot and stick’ approach is needed. So far, through the Social Issues Forum, we have been providing some ‘carrot’. The ‘stick’ is supposed to be provided by the Metro Police, who are responsible for enforcing this (and other) by-laws – but so far we have seen no evidence of them doing this. As far as I am aware, little effort is being made (by Metro, by members of the public, by fieldworkers or by SAPS) to enforce this by-law.
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Read more... [THE ‘NUISANCE BY-LAW: HOW TO REPORT OFFENCES AND GET ACTION]
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Vetus Schola has recovered a number of stolen wheelie bins but as the owners have not marked them they cannot be returned. This fresh spate of wheelie bin thefts is possibly as result of (stolen) trolleys being confiscated - also Richard the Thief is around again and is known to have stolen bins.
Those who have suffered this inconvenience know that it is quite a procedure to get a replacement bin
ALSO - please try and put your bin out for only the shortest possible time necessary. Avoid putting your bin out the night before collection
and bring it back in as soon as you can.
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Read more... [Mark your Wheelie Bins - New spate of thefts]
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Brian Gray informes us that SAPS DPO's (Designated Police Officer for fire-arm licenses) are no longer conducting gun safe inspections and what is now required by them are two colour photographs of the safe, showing an external view and an internal view of the safe. The colour photographs must be attached to a SAPS form Annexure "A" (Declaration in terms of Regulation 86 of the Firearms Control Regulations, 2004 (Safekeeping Facilities)).
This is in the form of an affidavit in which the signatory states under oath that he/she has an SABS approved safe or strongroom for the safekeeping of any firearms.
If any licensed firearm owners need more information regarding firearms go to:
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 15:17 |
Three people were arrested on Wednesday in the Cape Town suburb of Observatory with R100 000 worth of dagga, Western Cape police said.
 "We executed a search warrant, and confiscated 45 dagga plants, eight plastic bags with dagga and a tin filled with dagga," said Sergeant Hilton Malila.
Police also recovered nine rounds of ammunition hidden inside a spectacle case.
"We also confiscated equipment and educational material on the manufacturing of dagga on the premises."
Police were tipped off that the people in the house were dealing in dagga.
The dagga they found had an estimated street value of R100 000.
The three men, aged between 19 and 24, were arrested for dealing in dagga and possession of ammunition.
They will appear in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court next Monday. - Sapa
Published on the Web by IOL on 2009-12-23 14:53:09
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