I think Annemarie has got some facts wrong. I believe OBSID started with ADT then Vetus Schola and now have Securitas acting on their behalf but is now regaining control over the performance rather than leaving it to the agents. Its not helping if we spend large sums to OBSID who pays another firm to employ patrollers who are not empowered to do police work and then people criticise because we expect them to act as trained police which they are not.
What I think we have to work on, is to get the right affordable mix of patrollers on foot, on bike and silent scooter, to watch and report, supported by the community ONW PLUS a well trained and motivated locally based “flying squad’' security pair, who can arrest and work with police, as a police / security trained pair, supported by police and with good local tracking system that catches the criminals on their escape route, so every incident ends in an arrest and a conviction! I believe OBSID IS going for it. Marc --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room TEL: 021-447-1066 or 072-063-1653 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EMERGENCIES: 10111 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ONW email: o...@obs.org.za WEB: www.obswatch.org.za FACEBOOK: facebook.com/obswatch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Useful Obs Numbers: obs.org.za/obsdir 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 obsnw@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
