Fifth CCIN command centre launched
The group brings together state roleplayers like the police and JMPD, private security companies and others to form a group where resources are pooled for maximum effect.
The Civilian Crime Intelligence Network (CCIN) launched its West Rand operational headquarters further expanding their services to those in need of assistance.
This centre will have oversight of Fairland, Roodepoort and other suburbs in the Northcliff Melville Times footprint. For one example of how powerful this group is, when a person goes missing, a vast array of manpower and resources can be deployed to locate the individual by working together, rather than in silos. The same is true for criminals on the run.
The District Commissioner for Johannesburg, Major General Masha and his counterpart West Rand District Commissioner Major General Kekana both commended community involvement and multiple partnership synergies in the fight against crime when addressing the opening of the CCIN Gauteng West branch.
The initiative is proudly supported by their primary emergency medical partner, Netcare 911, and an exciting new partnership with Brigadier Johan Kruger and the team at E2 Business Against Crime (BAC) was also announced at the event.
At the launch were BCI Security’s K9 teams, JMPD, Gauteng traffic police, various CPFs, private individuals and other security companies including SCP Security.
“This CCIN operational command centre is the fifth of its kind in Gauteng and will operate by cooperation and resource sharing and commitment from multiple stakeholders in the sphere of crime and safety,” said Dr Mikail Reza Patel, the CCIN chairperson.
“This fully functional joint operational centre will give the statutory players in the sphere an opportunity to create technologically driven, proactive and intelligence-driven operations.
Patel added criminals couldn’t be allowed to run amok in communities.
“This operational centre will serve as a structure with a total situational awareness and direction of focused intelligence-led policing, driven by cooperative and cohesive synergies aimed at sustainably reducing crime. The main purpose is to ensure that operational policing services are directed and coordinated to prevent and combat crime in areas that require it. The centre will operate 24-hourly and will be manned by a core group of specialists in the field.”
The success of the new command centre would rest upon an effective partnership between the statutory partners, primary partners and communities.
Bhaai Cassim of the network’s missing persons unit and Fairland CPF member said, “I received a surprise certificate of appreciation at the end of the function, presented to me by Major General Max Masha and Captain Yorke of Roodepoort SAPS for work done with finding missing persons.
“With thanks to all my colleagues, SAPS, law enforcement agencies, private security companies, CPFs, neighbourhood watches, patrollers, members of the public, and individuals for making our task easier. Without your help, we could not achieve the successes we have.”
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