Ward 132 councillor Annette Deppe is crying foul over alleged poor service she received from the Sandton police after being robbed at McDonald’s in Woodmead on 11 April.
Deppe said she waited for an hour for the police to arrive after she had called the station and they promised to dispatch a vehicle. However, that did not happen until she left. She was waiting for her order in the parking lot when a man approached and grabbed her hand by the window and demanded that she switched off her car and hand over her cell phone.
“Only once he asked me for my laptop did I realise how serious it was. He then took my phone, turned around and got into the car that was parked behind me and sped off,” said Deppe.
She called 10111 and alerted them about the incident and then called Sandton Police Station. “In that hour not one of them came to the scene. Why didn’t they turn up? I was traumatised and robbed. Is a robbery of a cell phone just another thing in a person’s daily life? Did they not take me seriously? This is totally unacceptable.”
Deppe left the scene and went to Midrand Vodaworld to retrieve her cell phone data. She proceeded to the Midrand Police Station where she opened a case. Spokesperson for the Sandton Police Station Captain Granville Meyer confirmed the incident and said that it was under investigation. “The station commander can be contacted with the alleged poor service complaint,” he said.
Deppe said she would like to thank the manager at McDonald’s in Woodmead who welcomed her into her office and assisted her with using the phone and obtaining CCTV footage of the vehicle used by the suspects.
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