The Din-Al-View CPF is inviting all community members, as well as all sectional title complex and security estate owners or management committees, to attend its monthly meeting.
The meeting will take place on October 28, at 6pm for 6.30pm, at Dinwiddie High School, in Baldock Avenue, Dinwiddie.
“Our crime statistics reveal that there has been an increase in the number of serious crimes taking place within sectional title complexes and security estates in the Dinwiddie, Albemarle, Castleview, Norton Small Farms and Union areas,” said Vaughn Jones, vice-chairman of the Din-Al-View CPF.
“These crimes include housebreakings, home invasions, hijackings and dealing in drugs.”
Jones added that, for many years, sectional title complexes and security estates have been regarded as safe, which, until recently, has been true.
“However, it appears that organised criminals are now starting to target this once secure environment,” he said.
“Very few serious crimes, like housebreakings, are being committed by unemployed people or bored school children.
“The criminals are organised syndicates, looking for easy targets.
“Banks and cash-in-transit vehicles are no longer easy marks and their emphasis has changed to soft and/or easy targets, including cybercrime and scamming tricks.
“Criminals are fully aware that residents in sectional title complexes and security estates are more carefree.
”They don’t have armed response, don’t install security gates on all doors and many go to sleep at night leaving the sliding gates or widows wide open.
“One or two security guards at a complex are a very little deterrent for a determined criminal and, no matter how many security guards a complex has, there is always a chance that the security can be ‘paid off’.
“Sectional title complexes and security estates are also the ‘preferred residences’ of counterfeiters, scam artists, drug dealers and for drug lords to set up drug labs.
“The reason is simple, they are using your own security to their advantage.
“By the time the police get to the complex and to the unit, any evidence has already been destroyed, making the raid futile.”
Jones said the Din-Al-View CPF committee feels that they need to form a working relationship with each and every sectional title and home owners’ community within the area.
“We are, therefore, extending an open invitation for you and your committee to meet with us on October 28, not only to make your community safe, but also ours.
“After all, we all reside within the area,” he added.
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