On February 16 at 10.09am a phone in signal was received from the RSS Guard informing the Control Room of a break in at unit 30 Thanda Thula Complex in Glenluce Drive Douglasdale. RFM Khawulani was dispatched to the premises. On arrival contact was made with the RSS Guard Lucas Tloome who confirmed that he was phoned by the client from unit no 30, who informed them that there were suspects inside her premises.

The guard went to the unit to check. On the arrival, he was informed by he owner that she saw the suspects inside her yard and screamed at them. The suspects then jumped over the wall of her property to the river side.

The guard proceeded back to the guard house to call for backup. On his way, he made contact with Frieda Moitjie from unit number 14 Thanda Thula who informed him that she was tied up by the suspects.RFM Khawulani arrived on scene and contact was made with the guard who gave him a description of the suspects. RFM Khawulani then drove around the complex to the back along Douglas Road and stopped at Chobe Sands to ask the guards if they saw anything. The guards confirmed that they saw the two suspects pass by about three minutes previous.

The RFM proceeded in the direction that the suspects were walking and turned into Lesley drive where he spotted the suspects walking along corner Lesley and Penguin Drive. He once again backup was called for; he stopped his vehicle in front of the suspects and ordered them to stop while pointing his company firearm at them.

He then arrested one of the suspects as the other suspect ran away along Penguin Drive. RV44 and RV55 arrived for backup and the second suspect was found along Darter Avenue. The suspect then jumped into

no: 5 Turaco Crescent followed by RFM Khawulani. The suspect was arrested by RFM inside the property.

The SAPS were waiting outside of the property and both suspects were handed over to them. SAPS on scene were Constable Mahlaba and Dale from Douglasdale SAPS.

RSS Medical Kerry was on scene to give the domestic worker Frieda Moeitjie trauma counseling.

Through further investigation it was discovered that the suspects crawled under the palisade fence which runs across the river as a perimeter fence. They then walked along the river until they got to no

14 Thanda Thula complex and jumped into the property on the Northern side.

The suspects found the sliding door open and used it to gain access into the house. They then found the domestic called Frieda Moeitjie and tied her up using a cell phone charger. The suspects then ransacked the house and fled.

Frieda was not sure what was stolen from the property as the owner was not at home. The suspects then proceeded to unit number 30 and got a fright when the client screamed and fled by jumping over the wall. The suspects were later identified as Justice and Andries Sanda who resides at 18th street, Alexandra Township.

The clients from unit 30 and unit 14 were both at the police station to open a case. It is unknown at this stage what is all missing from unit 14 as the client still needs to check. Jewellery was found in the suspect?s pockets which belonged to unit 14 which was handed over to the SAPS.

Letter sent to Residents Against Crime (RAC)

We had an intruder in our yard on Sunday morning just after 5am; I think they jumped the front wall to gain access.

They managed to get into my wife’s car, got away with her Ipod and rosary. When they opened the garage door, this alerted the dogs and me, I called RSS, who responded pretty promptly.

They did not find anyone on the property.

Shortly after RSS left, I heard and saw a very old light blue/baby blue car pull out from next door (not their car). It looked like a Dutsun hatch of sorts.

I must commend Douglasdale and Sandton SAPS.

I called the sector6 vehicle which arrived within 10min. It was close to shift change and not urgent, I was asked us to call the next vehicle in about 30 minutes, who also arrived within 10 minutes.

An hour after they left, they had a detective out to do finger prints and about an hour after that, another detective doing follow up on the case, very impressed.

RAC: http://www.rac.org.za/

The Douglasdale SAPS and CPF have formed a Youth Desk which will be launched on March 17, 2012. They are still looking for volunteers in the age group of 18-34 years to join them and help out with various projects

The Youth Desk will engage themselves in projects like; school based crime prevention and social crime prevention such as:

Street Children

Victim Empowerment

Domestic Violence

Children in Conflict with the law

HIV/Aids awareness campaigns

Environmental intervention programs

Drugs and alcohol abuse

Primary and High School projects

etc.

Please pass this message on to your Kids, Friends, Neighbours, Churches, Schools, Youth Clubs, and Sport Clubs.

For more information and registration contact the Youth Desk coordinators:

Quinton Pretorius – 072 7841311 – E-mail: quinton@youngable.com

Martin van Zwieten – 083 4473683 – E-mail: mvz@netactive.co.za

Kelvin Ludidi, the Rolex Gang Leader, was shot dead on February 9, 2012. Ludidi and the Rolex Gang are responsible for thousands of armed robberies, hijackings, and follow home incidents, and had even been active in the CSS Tactical Operational areas.

Although Ludidi had been on their radar for some time now, and many of the gang?s members had previously been arrested, Ludidi remained elusive to the SAPS and private security companies. He was shot dead during a shootout in Crowthorne, Midrand, with an AK47 found in his vehicle.

There was a break in at a shop Leaping Frog Shopping Centre on Friday night February 10, 2012. The burglars cut a hole in the roof. Whilst on patrol the Douglasdale Police and CPF and RSS were doing routine checks at the centre and disturbed them, the suspects started to run away.

A suspicious Rasta guy, who was on phone, was seen running away and jumping into an old while Toyota type car and driving off. A huge security net spread out all over the area and all adjacent areas were checked and vehicles stopped Police climbed onto the roof to check if any other burglars were still there.

The police also accessed the service areas and alleys via TSG and the rear of Leaping Frog Shopping Centre, security guards, car guards and reaction officers from 24/7, RSS and SAPS joined forces to carry out the security dragnet.

A huge crowd watched the operation from TSG and Brazen Head. Centre Management were called to the scene, the whole store was checked room by room by RSS and police, from what could be ascertained nothing stolen.

Rain came into the store from roof hole and had to be mopped up

Thanks to the Douglasdale CPF and Security patrols the suspects were scared off.

Danielle Dooley

Friday night February 10, 2012 stated off quiet with paramedics of Emer-G-Med, K9 Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue Unit members and their dogs meeting up at 4pm, ready for the night ahead.

The K9 Units and the Search and Rescue Units work free of charge as volunteers as do some of the paramedics. Although there was a constant drizzle the only report in the early hours of the evening was a bumper bashing on William Nicol.

The teams went to Douglasdale Police Station to stand parade with police and metro police officers, security officers from RSS Security and ADT and members of the Douglasdale CPF for a joint operation.

30 EMS and Police vehicles drove in convoy to KyaSand Informal Settlement where complaints of loud music and disturbance of peace had been reported. The patrols arrived with a great presence, more than 50 police, security members and paramedics with the four dogs arrived at the complaint to find all was calm and in order.

The convoy then drove through the six sectors showing a strong police visibility. Due to the rain the other planned operations had to be cancelled.

motorbike accident (MBA) on the NI North Highway near the William Nicol off ramp. Medics arrived on scene to find that a biker had lost control of his bike flinging his wife off before coming off himself.

Witnesses reported that the man who had visibly been drinking was speeding when he lost control, his wife suffered severe gravel grazes on her back and posterior. Her husband did not appear to have suffered any major injuries except a slight concussion.

He was extremely combative with the medics; it took six of them to hold him down while they sedated him and placed him on a spinal board.

They were both taken to Life Fourways before being transported to Helen Joseph Hospital.

The second motor vehicle accident (MVA) occurred within minutes of leaving the MBA, witnesses reported that two vehicles were stationary at a red robot on Lesley Road near Design Centre.

Another vehicle was driving through the green robot on William Nicol heading toward Witkoppen, one of the stationary vehicles a white BMW suddenly started driving forward and then accelerated, (turning into William Nicol, toward Witkoppen) speeding through the red robot and crashing with great impact into the vehicle that was heading straight.

Both cars lost control when they T-boned and flew off the road landing in the ditch on the side of William Nicol. When paramedics arrived they found both vehicles had no passenger and the drivers were outside of their vehicles with only slight injuries.

The driver of the white BMW had vomited all over himself which is allegedly the cause of the accident. Both drivers where visibly drunk.

A fight then ensued between the two drivers resulting in them punching each other.

Paramedics and tow truck drivers had to pull the two apart, both drivers then turned on the paramedics and tow truck drivers. Police were called to the scene to arrest the arrest.

Again just minutes later two more accident reports were received, paramedics split up attending to both.

A driver had lost control of his car on Sloane Street near William Nicol and had knocked over a red robot, going straight across William Nicol, ramping up an embankment with the front of his car lading on a cement block.

Once again the driver was lucky to escape with no injuries but was also driving under the influence of alcohol.

Police were called to attend to the scene to arrest him for driving over the limit.

The other accident occurred on Witkoppen Road, Fourways a woman was trying to make a U-Turn over the grassy island between the roads.

She was safely waiting on the grass for the road to clear, when a speeding driver heading in the direction of Sunninghill, veered off the road crashing into her vehicle. He then continued driving, trying to escape from the scene.

Tow truck drivers who has witnessed the accident chased after him, while others blocked the road ahead of him. His car eventually broke down bringing him to a halt. Police officers were called to the scene to intervene. Luckily no one was injured in this accident.

Then at around 2am the last call of the night was received for an accident in Midrand, when paramedics arrived they found that the police, fire department and provincial ambulance were already on scene.

A man had been driving when he hit a speed bump at high speed, forcing his car to roll, the car landed in the veldt.

The driver was being treated for a head wound and deep gash in his chin.

He was in a stable condition. It is alleged that he fell asleep at the wheel of the car.

DON?T DRINK AND DRIVE

DON?T DRINK AND DRIVE

The majority of these accidents were the result of drinking and driving. Think before you drink and drive or you may end up killing yourself or other motorists.

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Writer has been recently dealing in this column with the effects of community complacency and trying to highlight that this is one of the main community attitudes that criminals feed off. This last week or so as seen a surge in criminal activity especially in the Broadacres, Lonehill and surrounding areas with many of the crimes or attempts being fuelled by community complacency.

Many of the reported incidents relate to persons going to bed, leaving windows and doors unsecured, especially in complexes, only to wake in the morning to find that they have parted ways with some of their possessions with an emphasis on laptops, plasma screen TVs, Ipads, cellphones and small portable valuables. The same applies to persons who go away on leave and their premises unlocked and unsecured. The fact is that by simple and basic precaution such as securing windows and doors, activating alarms and ensuring valuables are not unattended in plain view of anyone looking into windows (even drawing the curtains would help), many such incidents of crime would be avoided. Furthermore by criminals succeeding in their quest to relieve owners of their valuables in circumstance of ease and complacency, the invitation to conduct more criminal activity in our precinct grows not to mention so does the danger of confrontation with residents in their homes.

The issue of car remote lock jamming is a further illustration of complacency. Whilst some claim the use of jammers is urban legend and others say remote signal jamming is not only possible but operating in our precinct, the fact remains that we have a massive surge of reports of theft out of motor vehicles of valuables and in many instances again basic precautions would have led to such crimes being avoided.

Lock valuables out of sight in your boot and physically check your vehicles are locked by trying the handles before going about your business. Even without remote jamming it is remarkable how many community members forget to secure their vehicles when going about their lives.

A little time for basic precaution leads to a safer and crime free precinct for us all.