Honeydew CPF educates residents about current crime trends

Saturday, October 16 saw members of the Honeydew Community Policing Forum (CPF), Honeydew Police and CPF volunteer patrollers spend time at local shopping centres to inform and educate residents about current crime trends and what to look out for.

Residents were also educated not just to lock their cars and walk off, but to actually check and make sure it’s locked.

“Community engagement is always a great thing and the time spent definitely helped a few members of the community.

“We feel that this type of interaction is very important as residents hear it first hand and understand it better.

“We will most certainly be doing more of these interaction sessions going forward,” said Sergeant Mamasedi May from Honeydew Police Social Crime.

While busy with the community project, the Honeydew CPF members were asked to assist with a motor vehicle accident on the corner of John Vorster and Christiaan de Wet Roads. Police presence was also requested as tensions got a little high on the scene.

As this is a very busy intersection CPF volunteer patrollers assisted the police with traffic control while the scene was being attended to.

“We would like to thank police members on duty with us who attended to this accident; unfortunately we’ve experienced an increase in crime in our sector in recent weeks, in particular house robberies.

“Whilst our CPF has a strong social media following, we know you can’t reach everyone online, so we decided to hit the streets to ensure our residents are aware of the recent crime patterns and give them some tips on keeping themselves and their loved ones safe.

“It was very rewarding to have the opportunity to chat face to face with local residents and answer some questions they had.

“We hope to do more crime awareness campaigns like this in the near future,” said Honeydew CPF Sector 1 chairperson, Lynden Cotterell.