As per my email: Incidentally, chatting this morning to a neighbour of the Norfolk Road home where the white Bantam LDV was broken into re the radio stolen, was, that the crime already happened at around 4.30 pm the previous day on Wednesday afternoon. Apparently, the perpetrator brazenly, while being noticed by a female passer-by, busted the window, then casually stole the radio, and marched off with it.
Apparently SAPS had been to the home later the day, but the vehicle was left as is, broken glass and all, thus gave rise to me suspecting the crime had happened on Thursday morning. On 22 November 2014 at 16:48, James Cowley <[email protected]> wrote: > The amount of reported crime in Obs, my belated note, has reference. > > Taking a *casual* walk through Obs with a friend at 4 am on Thursday > morning 20 November, we came across at 04.29 in Norfolk Road, a white > Bantam LDV which had the passenger door window busted and the Obs confetti > telling the tale, the car radio had been stolen - the wires dangling. > Seemingly, no one was aware of the crime, so I informed the OPS 021 447 > 1066. > > We also found the pub along Lower Main adjacent to Milton Road, at 04.11 > presumably still consuming alcohol (maybe it was water being consumed > mmmmm....) but if it was liquor, then was a definite no-no, whether you are > the pub owner, the licence holder, or a patron. Presumably no Metro Police, > SAPS or OPS were attending to the problem, so I informed SAPS 10111 and > Metro Police 021 596 1999, and got reference numbers from both service > call desks. > > Just prior to that at 04.07, we walked past the Sasol garage situated on > Lower Main Road (near the Milton Road intersection, we noticed a OPS patrol > vehicle parked on the side of the building in a dark spot, the driver fast > asleep laying inside his vehicle. The Ops control room was informed and a > statement was made available to the OBSID and the OPS Management. The > matter is pending. > > After having attended the OBSID AGM on Saturday 1 November 2014 I left the > meeting and subsequently, after a short delay at Nuttall Road, I proceeded > *casually* home to Scott Road via Wesley Street. At 14.35 in the > afternoon, the OPS security mobile unit patroller was sitting fast asleep > inside the unit. I took a photo and forwarded it along with a statement to > the OPS Management and the OBSID. The security member was subsequently > relieved from his duties. > > On a lighter note - I was pleased this morning and this afternoon, having > seen near the same security mobile unit parked on Wesley Street, an OPS > patroller actively walking around in the area and pleasantly talking to > residents and passersby. This is exactly what a member had noted of at the > OBSID AGM two weeks ago, 'what the OPS patrollers on duty at a mobile unit > should be doing' instead of 'whiling the hours away inside the unit'. Its > nice to have an OPS 'Bobby' on duty - Well done to him! > -- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room ---------------------------------------------- 021-447-1066 072-063-1653 For all emergencies please dial 10111 ---------------------------------------------- ONW: 082 081 0142, ONW email: [email protected] WEB: www.obswatch.org.za ---------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
