EMERGENCY NUMBERSPolice (Fish Hoek): 021 784 2700 Police Control Van: 082 522 2745 Crime Stop (Police) 10111,082 10111 National Firearms Centre 012 353 6111 Child Abuse/images childprotect@saps.org.za OTHER: Clovelly NW 24h: 082 782 6333 Mach1: 082 858 9320 ADT: 086 1212 300 Chubb: 086 1021 911 YMA Security: 079 492 4384 Mountain Men: 021 700 3120 Ambulance & fire 10177 Childline Toll free 08000 55555 Drug & substance abuse 080 015 0150 Human Trafficking 080 055 5999 Independent Complaints Directorate 012 399 0000 Lifeline national counseling 086 132 2322 Medical emergency 082 911,031 480 3790 Medical rescue 083 1999 Poison centre 021 082 9114 Stop Gender Based Violence helpline 0800 150 150 Suicide helpline 080 056 567 | In February,the neighbourhood watch was feeling very frustrated because a house had been broken into when no one was home. No one saw when it was done or who might have done it. Irritating,yes,but police systems came to the fore and the culprit has been arrested. [...] After a week of all-nighters waiting for the car thieves to come back to Clovelly,they were finally caught at about 5am this morning. [...] On Monday 8 November 2010,a slim young “coloured” man named Quentin,recently released from Pollsmoor,crossed the road and quietly opened 2m-high bolted gates in a property in Riverside Road,Silverglades,and sauntered into the property towards a bicycle parked in the garden. The homeowner opened the door whereupon [...] The picture attached is of the young guy who stole a copper pipe off the wall of Tudor House in Simonstown Road on Thursday 18 Feb. A motorist saw this and told Tudor house. A radio call was put out and several NWs responded. He was chased along the railway line and other patrollers waited [...] Two burglars made a very big mistake by breaking into the house belonging to a local policeman’s family in 10th Ave today,Friday 12 Feb,late morning. The call was put out and NWs formed a cordon around the perimeter where the guys were last seen. The police (satisfyingly,the one whose family was affected) [...] Information from the police has been in short supply recently,so we have only snippets. Yesterday (Thursday 11 Feb) there were two break-ins in Nerina Crescent,just over the pipe bridge towards Bay Primary. The burglars had removed the glass and then strewn everything about the houses looking for small things to steal,such as [...] Last night a man got into a house in Hilton Road. The homeowner,who was home with his baby,heard the floor creaking and went to investigate. A man was in their lounge. He was wearing a bandana around his face. (Sunflower fund bandana.) The homeowner shouted at him and at first the man was [...] A burglar we caught recently trying to break in to a house in Clovelly Road near the club is likely to get off. He had climbed up into a first floor bedroom. The residents instantly called the NW and the man was seen running a bit further down the road and finally caught in Montrose [...] Two men involved in the Armed Robbery at the Spur on Sunday 5th April 2009,were successfully arrested on the same night. Not sure yet how the first guy was arrested,but the guy with the gun was arrested after a magnificent joint effort by SAPS and NWs after he ran into the Clovelly wetlands. [...] | |