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On 1st December a 43-year-old man was sentenced in the Cape Town Magistrates Court to 23-years in jail. The case stems from an arrest made in Cavalcade Road, Green Point in September 2019. Sgt. Zanini Makeke and his partner were on patrol when they ran the license plate off the car and found that it

The Green Point Neighbourhood Watch welcomes the formation of a new neighbourhood watch that will cover Sea Point, Fresnaye and Bantry Bay. The GPNW believes that the formation of the Sea Point Community Watch is an important milestone in crime prevention on the Atlantic Seaboard; the criminals who target Green Point and Three Anchor Bay

Last week Daniel di Trappani, a GPNW member, responded to a report of a burglary at a home on Clydebank Road that had been reported on Buzzer. The neighbour was able to provide a description of the three suspects and after he spotted two of them on High Level Road Daniel alerted Avenue Response and

During the first three months in which the GPNW and Avenue Response have supported the Buzzer security app in the Atlantic Seaboard area Buzzer has shown promising results. Over 600 people are using Buzzer in the Green Point, Three Anchor Bay and Mouille Point areas (Sector 1) and we understand that there are nearly 2,000

The GPNW recently sent a letter to Interim Ward Councilor Matthew Kempthorne and to Mr. Wayne Aldridge of the City of Cape Town expressing concerns about the growing number of illegal structures that are appearing near the Pinocchio Creche and opposite the SAPS Station on Bill Peters Drive. There has been an increase in muggings

The six months from April to September saw membership in the GPNW grow by 57. “The EXCO that took over in March identified the need to grow membership and to increase member engagement and participation as our important priorities for 2020” Peter Flentov, the GPNW Chair, explained. Mr. Flentov went on to say: “It gratifying

The transition to Level 3 has resulted in an alarming increase in incidents of crime in the area, especially in muggings. While we had anticipated an increase in criminal activity as the country eases the Lockdown restrictions, this occurred sooner than we had expected. There have been a number of cases where residents were victims

Not surprisingly the hard Lockdown instituted in March had a positive impact on crime in the Atlantic Seaboard area. With many people working from home and significant restrictions on being outside the opportunity for opportunist crime has been greatly reduced. While official figures are not available, it appears that the reduction in crime in the