Upcoming meeting aims to address the rise of lawlessness in Sector 3
The community is urged to attend the crime forum meeting on November 26 at Noordwyk Secondary School.
The Midrand Sector 3 Crime Forum invites community members to an important crime-curbing meeting.
The meeting aims to come up with methods to tackle the rise of lawlessness in the sector. Residents of the following suburbs are urged to attend; Noordwyk, Country View, Crowthorne, Blue Hills, Erand and Midridge.
Forum chairperson Marvin Maphiri said hijacking and house break-ins were on the rise. “Community efforts are needed to fight these crime scourges. The meeting is scheduled for November 26 at Noordwyk Secondary School from 09:00 – 11:00,” said Maphiri.
In October, Maphiri said they were ‘under siege’ from the perpetrators who continued to wreak havoc. This is after their September crime statistics indicated a 150% increase in hijackings while common robbery had increased by a whopping 73.3% compared to the same month last year.
As such, an awareness campaign was then held at San Ridge Square on October 26 to try to mitigate crime. The sector, together with Midrand Police Station and the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) held a crime awareness campaign aimed at educating residents.
He urged residents not to only be active when crime only affects them directly because that cannot be the solution to combating crime in the area. Maphiri further requested community members to participate in patrolling day and night.
He said the increase indicates a need for the installation of CCTV cameras at hotspots as a necessity and as a matter of urgency if they are to win the crime battle.
Business robbery has also hit the sector after a gang of about 12 heavily armed suspects stormed a petrol station in Noordwyk in the early hours of November 7 and made off with an amount estimated between R180 000 and R200 000. This left Maphiri believing that a syndicate was operating in their sector targeting petrol garages.
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https://www.citizen.co.za/midrand-reporter/313609/between-r180-000-r200-000-stolen-in-petrol-station-robbery
