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Safety & Security
Social Classifieds & What's on and happening
From our Ward 57 Representative & the City
Cape Town City contacts
SAFETY & SECURITY
LMRID REPORTS
MOWBRAY PRECINCT CRIME REPORT
Hi, All:
JULY 26 – AUGUST 1
2 ROBBERIES
Mowbray police are investigating a case of attempted murder after a schoolboy was shot in the arm during a robbery on the footbridge at the public transport interchange last week. Happened on Tuesday at 3.50pm when two robbers accosted two pupils and, when one of them resisted, he was shot. The boy was taken to hospital.
The other robbery occurred in Astley Road at 6pm on Friday when three men leapt from a car and snatched the handbag of a woman standing outside her home
4 BURGLARIES REPORTED
At the Vista Nova School in Milner Road in the early hours of Wednesday morning (kitchen appliances taken)
At Forest Hill students’ residence on Thursday between 2.30-2.55pm (iPad stolen)
In Clarendon Road at about 8.30pm on Saturday, when thieves were disturbed while breaking into a house and fled after crashing their getaway car into a lamp-pole
In Main Road during the night on Sunday, when alcohol was stolen from a restaurant after the door was forced open
COPPER THIEVES
Were also busy during the week - in Firth Road on Thursday between 2.15-7.30pm (tap and cabling) At Mowbray train station during the night on Thursday (copper cables taken)
FOUR CARS WERE BROKEN INTO
Red Cross Hospital between 8.45-9.30am on Tuesday
Rhodes High School between 7.50-9pm
Thornhilll Road during the night on Tuesday
Balfour Road during the night on Saturday
AUGUST 2 – 15
FIVE BURGLARIES WERE REPORTED
In Klipfontein Road during the night on Sunday (August 2), a laptop, tools and other equipment were stolen from the garage of a business premises by thieves who forced the door open
In Clarendon Road during the night on Friday (August 6), a gate motor was stripped from a house
In Bordon Road on Saturday (August 7) between 1.30-6.30pm, clothing was stolen from a washing line
In Heath Road around midnight on Tuesday (August 10), two bicycles were stolen from a garage
In John Street sometime during the course of the week (August 12-15), an unsuccessful attempt was made to break into an empty house
FOUR ROBBERIES WERE REPORTED
At the intersection of Sawkins and Klipfontein Roads at 9.30am, a motorist paused at the red light had his wide-window smashed by a robber who tried to steal his cellphone but he managed to foil the attempt by speeding off
In Main Road on Friday (August 6) at 4.30pm, three motor-muggers snatched a backpack containing cellphone and cash from a pedestrian
On Sunday (August 9) at 8.10am, a man armed with a firearm robbed a pedestrian of his bag containing cellphone and cash
In Richmond Road on Monday at 3.30pm, a duo of muggers robbed a scooter deliveryman of his cellphone
CABLES THIEVES
At the City Lodge on the N2 where CCTV camera cables were damaged
Mowbray railway station at 9.10am on Sunday August 2, when signal cables were taken
NINE CARS WERE BROKEN INTO
Wolmunster Road during the night on Monday August 2)
Roseberry Road around midday on Monday (August 3)
Long Street on Thursday (August 5) between 7.30-9-30am (number plates)
Clarendon Road during the night on Friday August 6 (camper fridge and sunglasses)
Lower York Road during the night on Saturday August 7 (radio and wheel spanner)
Rondebosch Medical Centre in Klipfontein Road on Tuesday August 10 between 3.20-4.30pm (tools)
Rondebosch Medical Centre on Thursday August 12 between 11.20-12.40 (headlights)
Highfield Road during the night on Sunday August 15)
Highfield Road during the night on Sunday August 15 (radio)
ARREST
Patrolling police arrested a man at the corner of Main and Station Roads on Thursday at 4.20pm for being in possession of a stolen car
AUGUST 16 - 22
HIJACKINGS
John Street at 8.30pm on Monday, when three men armed with a gun tooK a woman’s BMW
On the N2 after a minor accident at 7pm on Sunday, when the passenger in a car took the keys and drove off
ONE CAR WAS REPORTED STOLEN
An Isuzu bakkie taken from Durban Road at 11.30am on Wednesday
FOUR BURGLARIES REPORTED
In Gloucester Road during the night on Monday, a TV was taken after a door had been forced open
In Malleson Road, three men posing as painters broke into a house and took a laptop, clothing, bedding and books
In Montreal Road during the night on Saturday, an overhead projector was stolen from Rhodes High School
In Banksia Road on Saturday at 3.10pm, a sneak thief jumped a wall and made off with a laptop
TWO ROBBERIES REPORTED
A handbag-snatcher was arrested in Strubens Road at 2.15pm on Tuesday
A Taxify driver was robbed of cellphone and cash by a threesome of passengers armed with a gun at 8.10pm on Friday in Liesbeek Parkway.
TWO CARS WERE BROKEN INTO
Klipfontein Road at 4.45pm on Thursday (power drill taken)
Clarendon Road on Monday between 5-8pm (mirror and emblem)
Jonathan Hobday, chairperson, Mowbray CPF
With the successful formation of the Telegram Security Groups we ask that you take note of the following guidelines for the "INDENTIFICATION" of cars and people which will greatly assist the service providers to attend to your reports
Together with location please send a clear picture or a message describing the type of vehicle and importantly the registration number to the LMRID Control so it can be logged with the LPR team (License Plate Recognition)
NB: Describe what the person was doing that raised your suspicions
SOCIAL
CHRYSALIS GRADUATES
Jodi Jacobs & Siyanda Samela Have joined the LMRID team
Subject: FW: CONFIRMATION DISESTABLISHMENT OF WARD COMMITTEES- 3 SEPTEMBER 2021
Good Day all
The Speaker, Alderman Felicity Purchase has directed, following the decision of the Constitutional Court that the 2021 Local Government Elections must proceed between 27 October and 1 November, that all Ward Committees in the City of Cape Town must be disestablished with immediate effect.
In preparation for the Establishment of ward committees post LGE 2021,a clean-up exercise of COD must commence to ensure smooth transition to new wards and/or Subcouncils.
Please update your organisation on the attached revised COD form and return it with the following documents on or before 7 October 2021
AGM minutes( not older than 18 months)
Constitution
Map of Ward Boundaries (Civics and Ratepayers organisations only)