Security Quotes blog
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Confirmed Lookouts:
meets with the SAPS in your area every week. Here are the lookouts and trends from Edenvale SAPS, Benoni SAPS, Springs SAPS for the week ending 05 February.
Confirmed Lookouts:- Gold Volkswagen Polo Sedan: Registration number starting with DX24, 2 suspects, connected to theft and kidnapping
- White Suzuki Swift: Registration number unknown, 3 suspects, armed with a firearm and a hammer, connected to following from shopping centre and house robberies.
- Sky Blue Volkswagen Golf 6: Registration number starting with DT8, 3 Suspects, armed with firearm and a hammer, connected to driveway robberies.
- White Volkswagen Polo with a sunroof and black Mercedes Benz: Registration number starting with CY 87, 4 Suspects, connected to armed robbery.
- Brown BMW 5 Series: Registration number unknown, 5 Suspects, connected to house burglaries.
- White Hyundai: Registration number unknown, 3 Suspects, connected to armed robbery.
- White Toyota Fortuner: Registration number unknown, 3 Suspects, connected to robberies.
- White Suzuki: Registration number unknown, 2 Suspects, connected to armed robbery.
- White Mini Cooper: Registration number unknown, Suspects unknown, connected to house burglaries.
- Silver Volkswagen: Registration number unknown, 3 Suspects wearing gloves, connected to house burglaries.
- Black Mercedes Benz: Registration number starting with DY28, 3 Suspects, 2 armed connected to hijacking.
- Light Blue Nissan Qashqai: Registration number starting with CB46, 3 Suspects, all armed, connected to hijacking.
Latest Modus Operandi and tips:
- Ensure that all doors are locked at all times and close windows when not at home.
- Dogs are a good deterrent and can also provide an early warning of nearby strangers
- Ensure that tools such as axes, spades, picks etc. that can be used in an attack are locked away when they are not in use.
- When using a torch, try not to give your position away.
- If you suspect something amiss when arriving home e.g. dogs do not greet, do not enter, contact your security provider for a perimeter check.
- Good relationships with neighbours provide support and assistance in times of need.
- Identify a safe room in your house.
- Report suspicious behaviour to your security provider and the South African Police Service.
- Clear the areas around your gates and eliminate hiding places.
- Ensure that your employees are aware of safety tips and practise good security procedures.
- Keep copies of all employees ID document.
- Do not employ casual workers without a reference.
Check your alarm system and attend to low battery warnings immediately. A panic signal will not be received if the system battery is not sufficiently charged.
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Last week SAPS nabbed 2 perps - copper cable theft
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HOUSE ROBBERIES
HOUSE ROBBERIES
Interesting statistical research done by a Dr Zinn from UNISA regarding house robberies in South Africa. -
Beware of a bogus traffic cop operating in Krugersdorp and possibly targeting women.
One female complainant alleges that she was driving along Robert Broom Drive when she was stopped on the corner of Wren Street by a ‘cop’ in a champagne coloured Volkswagen Golf 7 on 23 November at around 10.35am.
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New road rules for SA: 5 laws Govt want to pass
Cape Town - Reduced speed limits, heavy vehicles to be banned during rush hour... earlier in 2015, Wheels24 reported on new draft road and traffic regulations for South Africa by the National Transport Department.
Draft regulations intended to reduce road carnage include slower speed limits, the banning of carrying children in a bakkie load bay and restricting the use of heavy vehicles on public roads.
The Justice Project South Africa claims the proposals were "bastardised by persons at the Department of Transport".
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
Pretoria - The Hawks in North West have on Wednesday morning arrested 15 police officers and two home affairs officials for their alleged involvement in the corruption at the Kopfontein Border Post.
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
Potchefstroom: Yesterday, Rustenburg Magistrates’ Court remanded 35-year-old Simphiwe Mahlangu in custody until next week Monday, 23 November 2015 for possession of drugs.
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
The Kimberley police, including the Tactical Response Team, Public Order Police, Forensic Unit, Organised Crime Unit and Detectives have arrested five suspects in connection cash-in-transit heist. The cash-in-transit heist took place on Monday, 16 November 2015 near a local store at Beaconsfield.
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
Last night from 23:00, four security guards were on duty at Ntuzuma Pick and Pay when they were approached by a group of armed suspects. The security guards were tied up and locked inside a toilet.
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
On Sunday 1 November 2015, a multidisciplinary team from Mountain Rise SAPS, Crime Intelligence and the HAWKS followed up on intelligence with regards to the flow of CAT and crack cocaine infiltrating the northern suburbs in the Woodlands residential area.
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
Pretoria –A 50-year-old man originally from Serbia has been arrested after he was found in possession of ATM card skimming devices when the Hawks raided his house in Alberton on Tuesday.
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Criminals have a new way of marking potential victims
Criminals have a new way of marking potential victims the Community Policing Forum (CPF) Sector 4 warned.
Recently, all across Randfontein, a new way of marking houses for criminal activity has been noticed.
According to William Knight from the CPF, “A young man has been spotted going around neighbourhoods, spraying driveways and trees. The colour of the spray is white and can only be spotted at night once you shine a light on it.
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
Potchefstroom- The police in Mahikeng and Pudimoe Clusters intensified the fight against crime and re-asserted the authority of the state when they apprehended 24 suspects through Operation Fiela between Thursday, 15 and Friday, 16 October 2015 for various offences.
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
Potchefstroom - Five suspects were arrested by Letlhabile police for robbery of cigarettes from a British American Tobacco van yesterday, 15 October 2015.
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
Hartbeespoort Crime Prevention police, in conjunction with the detectives and Crime Intelligence Unit cracked a notorious housebreaking gang. The six gang members were arrested in their hideout area
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
Limpopo, Maleboho. Six suspects will appear in the Bochum Magistrates' Court on Monday on charges of murder, armed robbery and possession of unlicensed fire arms and ammunition following an incident at Glenfenis village on Thursday evening.
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
Off duty Constables arrest two linked to a House Robbery
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South African Police Service (SAPS Official Page)
On Saturday, 03 October 2015 at about 17:30, a 68-year-old man, who was the driver of a Blue BMW, was arrested in Kimberley near Greenpoint
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South Crime Intelligence and the Cavendish Mobile Team recovered four firearms
n the early hours of 30 September 2015, members of the Ethekwini Outer South Crime Intelligence and the Cavendish Mobile Team recovered four firearms and arrested three suspects, aged between 46 and 18, at KwaMakhutha and its surrounding areas.
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Security guard shot at while trying to assist at accident scene
A security guard was shot at when he tried to help motorists involved in a vehicle collision at the corner of Van Buuren and Kloof roads in Bedfordview. The incident took place this morning.
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CCTV footage shows a scuffle between a security reaction officer and suspect.
A break-in suspect was declared dead on scene after being surprised by an EPR reaction officer in the early hours of the morning.
EPR quickly responded to an urgent call-out to a house in Warwick Street at around 4am this morning, 30 September
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Crime stats SA: 55 000+ stolen vehicles
Crime statistics 2014/2015: Figures compared to 2013/2014
Theft of motor vehicle and motorcycle - 55 090 (-1555)
Theft out of or from motor vehicle - 145 358 (+1557)
Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs - 68 561 (-1164)
Carjacking - 12 773 (1593)
Truck hijacking - 1279 (288)
Robbery of cash in transit - 119 (-26)SA vehicle crime stats: Breakdown by province
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Security News
Johannesburg - A domestic worker and her husband were arrested for a farm attack in Limpopo in which a woman was killed and locked in a walk-in safe with her husband, police said on Monday.
The couple were employees on the farm and were arrested over the weekend, Colonel Ronel Otto said.
Two other suspects were arrested in Diepkloof, Soweto.
Petro Res, 60, her husband Bruno, 70, and their friend Marie Barnard, were attacked in their home on the Motlopi Lodge game farm on Friday, September 18.
Bruno Res was shot in the arm when he could not remember the code to a smaller safe which was in the walk-in-safe. Petro was shot in the head.
The three were locked into the walk-in safe, where they spent about 16 hours before neighbours came to investigate and heard their cries for help.
The killers stole five firearms, including hunting rifles. Police were searching for five more people wanted in connection with the crime.
The four arrested would appear in the Thabazimbi Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
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Top 10 ways to ensure your household is safe
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