General

• Report all incidents to SAPS. Often all the hard work, time and effort spent on trying to catch criminals comes to nothing when people cannot be bothered to report an incident to SAPS. Report any and all criminal incidents no matter how small they may seem.
• Do not wait for a serious break-in or actual robbery to occur. If a person enters your property without permission, damages your vehicle, graffiti's your wall, get down to the SAPS office or get the SAPS to come to you to open a docket. It takes a bit of time to open a docket but if we consistently record the minor incidents we will very quickly have more intelligence on what is happening and will have an official recorded profile of repeat offenders which is extremely useful when the time comes for us to convince a prosecutor to be less lenient.
• Incidents that are not reported are not officially recorded and therefore, in the minds of the powers that be, never occurred. The allocation of resources to fight crime is based on these statistics so every time you do not make the effort to report a crime you are in effect ensuring that you, the tax paying rate payer, will be getting less of the resources for which you are paying. This is a bit like investing thousands of rands and then forgetting to collect the interest. Surely you handle your investments with more care than this?
• Be a citizen and do what needs to be done. Participate in the interests of your own, your family's, friends' and neighbours' best interests. Don’t expect underpaid, under trained and over worked police officers to do it on their own. If you have not attended the Community Police Forums and other meetings you have no idea of what you are asking of those true SAPS officers, who are dedicated to the task of keeping you safe by working in an environment that can only be equated to being as depressing as working underground in a coal mine 24x7 for 30 days.
• Don’t believe that you can simply buy security for your home and avoid the effects of crime that comes in the shape of muggings and cons at the ATMs, bag snatches in restaurants and pubs, run by muggings, cell phone grabs from your kids, theft from vehicles, theft of vehicles and armed hold ups. These all occur away from your home fort or security estate.
• If you want a safe future for yourself and your children in this country its going to take a lot more effort than is currently being made. “What are you doing to help?