Jeppe Police Station spokesperson, Richard Munyai has now been promoted to captain.
Munyai served as warrant officer for nine years and obtained his national diploma in public relations from the University of South Africa (Unisa).
“I joined the [police force] on 27 March 2002 as a communications officer in Soweto, and [then] at Protea [Police Station] as a sergeant. I worked at Protea Police Station for five years and I was a spokesperson for the Soweto area. On 28 April 2006, when the areas were closed, I moved to Protea Glen Police Station on 1 May,” he said.
Munyai worked as a social crime prevention officer, liquor officer and school monitoring officer, and in August 2007, he received a promotion to Jeppe Police Station as a warrant officer. He started working at Jeppe Police Station on 1 September 2007 and has been a warrant officer for nine years.
“I love to work with the community and that is why I excel at doing projects. I work with non-governmental organisations where we do community outreach programmes every year. We donate clothes and food.
“My biggest project was when I initiated the buying of school uniforms for primary schoolchildren. I identified 10 primary schools where we selected 10 children from disadvantaged families. We gave 100 children school uniforms,” he said.
Munyai said he has worked with business people who were also willing to assist in terms of fighting crime. “The challenges that we face is working with a community that does not want to work with the police to fight crime.
“We do rely on community members to give us information and feedback in terms of people committing crimes within their communities. We are always appealing to the community to come forward and give us information and work with us, in order to fight crime.”
Munyai said he would like to encourage working relationships between the community and the police. “We need members of the public, in terms of social responsibility to make our area safe. I would also like to encourage the youth to receive an education and to become responsible citizens,” he concluded.
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