Alex CPF worried about crime during the festive season
ALEXANDRA – CPF urges for school safety for children's sake.
Any sort of crime will be possible in Alex in the festive season when alcohol is free-flowing with gay abandon throughout the day and night until the first working day of 2018.
This was said by Vusi Gule, chairperson of the Alex Community Police Forum (CPF), when he expressed concern from past experience on liquor-related killings, injuries, vehicle accidents and robberies of persons and at homes mostly for money and items to sell to buy alcohol.
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Gola said, “Crime, mostly committed by the youth, will continue as long as many of them are unemployed. There is no community spirit, neighbours don’t communicate and new faces are forever coming in and out.
“Also, there is no synergy between the public and the police. There are numerous shebeens and taverns in every street with dubious licences, selling alcohol even to minors throughout the night and parents seem unable to control their children in an environment where police can’t be at every corner and this is known to the criminals.”
He said patrollers are already inundated with reports of thefts particularly of handbags and phones from women by two- or three-member gangs who have perfected the art of disappearing in the crowded malls and streets.
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“The CPF and police alone, can’t cope without community mobilisation, unity and willingness by residents to report crime and robberies seen happening in neighbours’ homes when they are away.”
Gule further urged residents to protect their schools against criminals who steal and sell school chairs for as little as R10.
” Our own children will suffer from the beginning of the first term when they are forced to share chairs and desks and delayed lessons awaiting replacement learning material.”
Details: Vusi Gule 072 716 1335
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