Have info handy when reporting crimes
If we have no victim, then we end up having to release the suspect.
The Community Crime Prevention Organisation (CCPO) urges the public to have the relevant information available when reporting a crime.
In the event of you being a victim of a crime, a witness to a crime or you report a crime on behalf a victim, leave your contact details with the operator, get the victim’s contact details and try to provide a description of the suspects.
“We have had a number of instances where a crime is reported on behalf of a victim and the CCPO responds and makes an arrest, but when we try and contact the victim they have disappeared,” said CCPO operations manager, Leon Joone.
“If we have no victim, then we end up having to release the suspect and they can continue committing crimes.”
The CCPO has recovered stolen property in the last week.
On Thursday morning, 23 July, a CCPO patrol chased three men up School Road and recovered a vacuum cleaner, weed eater, gumboots and jumper cables.
“Unfortunately the suspects escaped,” said Leon.
In a separate incident, car audio equipment was recovered by the CCPO in Wesley Road in Lower Illovo on Monday, 27 July.
“If anyone has had these items stolen, they have been handed in at SAPS Toti.”
