Familiar face new job
JEPPESTOWN - Jeppe police spokesperson Richard Munyai has been promoted to captain.
Jeppe Police Station spokesperson Richard Munyai has been promoted to the rank of captain after serving as a warrant officer for nine years.
Munyai also obtained his national diploma in Public Relations from the University of South Africa (Unisa) during this time.
“I joined the South African Police Services on 27 March 2002 as a communications officer in Protea, Soweto. I worked in Protea for five years [and] was a spokesperson for the Soweto area. Soweto had 11 police stations. When the areas were consolidated on 28 April 2006 I moved to Protea Glen Police Station on 1 May,” said Munyai.
He worked as a social crime prevention and liquor officer as well as a school monitoring officer. “In August 2007, I was promoted to Jeppe police as a warrant officer. I started working here [in] September 2007 and have been a warrant officer for nine years,” he said.
Munyai loves to work with the community. “This is why I excel in doing projects. I work with non-governmental organisations, such as MES, where we [participate in] community outreach programmes every year. We donate clothes and food.
“The biggest project I initiated, was a project where we bought school uniforms for primary school children. I identified 10 primary schools with 10 children from disadvantaged families. We gave 100 children from the Jeppe precinct school uniforms.”
“I worked with business people who were also willing to assist in terms of fighting crime,” said Munyai.
He also works with the street patrollers and the youth desk.
Munyai said the police rely on the community to provide information when people commit crimes within their community
“The challenge that we face, is working with a community that does not want to work with the police to fight crime. We are always appealing to the community to come forward and give us information and work with us in order to fight crime.”
Munyai emphasised the importance of a working relationship between the community and the police. “We need [the community] in terms of social responsibility to make our area safe. I would also like to encourage the youth to get an education and to become responsible citizens.”
Details: 011 624 6066 and 071 686 7527.
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