There should be some way that these accommodation facilities should produce guidelines for their lodgers and they should also contribute to extra security for the general area to get on top of this before its history! Marc From: Frank Schuitemaker Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 10:17 AM To: The Observatory Neighbourhood watch Cc: Howard Richman Subject: Re: [obsnw] Oxford Road Forced Entry Armed House Robbery
Good morning Barbara, Thanks for your suggestions but can't disclose details without owners permission but it's between Station and Trill. The owner called me for Police follow up, they rent out the front section of the house, often to foreign students. I'm aware of the backlash crime can have on the arrival of foreign students, various Dutch universities also stopped placing students in Obs years ago resulting in 5 places closing down. Backpackers, lodges etc used to have an association sharing info to inform students. Ideally this body should have representation on the ONW, Obsid Safety Committee, Obs CPF and OCA to strategies the overall concern together with all the role players including Saps. Suggest to get in touch with the owners of Green Elephant and Riverview Lodge, both who are pro-active in matters of safety in Observatory. You most likely provide students with emergency numbers. Perhaps let them download the ONW Obsdir on their phones and bookmark it obs.org.za/obsdir I On 20 September 2015 at 08:35, Barbara Langridge <[email protected]> wrote: Pease can these reports be more objective: Street Number Reported by Did Police do follow up Just as a side note, many households primary source of income is accomodation for international students. Two USA universities have made a decision not to place students in OBS due to an incident on OSIAN Road. It will be a disaster to chase away the rest of the market through crimes such as these. In some cases the students are to blame because they lack the discretion to understand walking home drunk, showing their phones in public and failing to lock gates etc, walking home alone at night. Thinking all people are”friendly”. But news travels fast and increased crime of this nature will affect arrivals in Cape Town. Just some facts, my Lodge received 100 students in the past 12 months. Each students budgets approximately R20000.00 a month for their average 3 month stay. They spend the majority of this on accomodation, hire cars and the main tourist activities around Cape Town. This is a total value of R2 million. This supports the local eateries, transport, and small businesses. It brings up the value of OBS as a destination,not to mention the property values. What is the police strategy to stamp out crime in OBS – because without them being an effective force, it will only get worse. Regards, Barbara Just food for thought. These students need to be protected as far as possible. [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Schuitemaker Sent: 19 September 2015 11:27 PM To: The Observatory Neighbourhood watch Subject: [obsnw] Oxford Road Forced Entry Armed House Robbery Dear Obsies, At 04:30 Three coloured males of about 1.8m height, average build broke down the driveway gates, damaging the motor mechanism. Climbed over a fence on the side of the house, smashed a glass window and forced off the burglar bars. Entered the room of an absent French student tenant and likely stole her laptop and other electronics (still finding out). When confronted by the other 3 or 4 woken up other foreign and one Zulu female student tenants they threatened them with knifes and shouted they will shoot them (no fire arm was however seen). Nobody was hurt but needless to mention that the ladies were severely shocked and traumatised by this incident. This is why we didn't manage to get a detailed description of the suspects or get away car or other modus operandi. A hat from one of the perps was found on the property and hopefully this may help Obsid to identify the suspects from CCTV footage. This report was made possible due to an active WhatsApp Group which reported some 8 incidents in a few days in Oxford Road alone. 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