{"id":53544,"date":"2023-06-15T19:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/beurtkrag-help-koperdiewe-20230614-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T03:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T01:16:24","slug":"beurtkrag-help-koperdiewe-20230614-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/beurtkrag-help-koperdiewe-20230614-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beurtkrag help koperdiewe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Die voortslepende kragkrisis dra by tot verdere onbeplande kragonderbrekings omdat diewe veral tydens beurtkrag kabels steel, dit ten spyte van taakspanne en hommeltuie wat ingespan word om di\u00e9 euwel te beveg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voorvalle van koper- en kabeldiefstal en verwante kragonderbrekings word byna weekliks op die Drakenstein-plaaswag (DFW) se WhatsApp-noodgroepe aangemeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DFW se bevelvoerder, Daan van Leeuwen Boomkamp, het weer sy kommer hieroor uitgespreek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Leeuwen Boomkamp s\u00ea sommige gebiede, soos die Sonstraalpad in Klein Drakenstein en Denneboomweg, word eenvoudig met misdaad en diefstal gehamer \u2013 \u201calles op die belastingbetaler se koste\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWat het ooit gebeur met die taktiese reaksiespanne gefokus op kabeldiefstal,\u201d het Van Leeuwen Boomkamp gevra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDieselfde vraag geld vir die hommeltuig-span en ekstra wetstoepassers wat di\u00e9 taak opgel\u00ea is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy meen ook dat nie een van DFW se aanbevelings, ten opsigte van die bekamping van kabeldiefstal, wat oor die jare aangebied is, oorweeg is nie, \u201cwat nog te s\u00ea ge\u00efmplementeer?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drakenstein-munisipaliteit se direkteur van gemeenskapdienste, Gerald Esau, het by navraag verseker dat die munisipaliteit multi-dissiplin\u00eare spanvergaderings fasiliteer, wat op die bekamping van kabeldiefstal in die gebied fokus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHierdie span sluit lede soos die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens en sy Non-Ferrous Metals Unit, Prasa, Transnet, en plaaslike sekuriteitsmaatskappye in,\u201d verduidelik Esau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy s\u00ea dat talle inhegtenisnemings deur die polisie gedoen is, ook danksy die hulp van die gemeenskap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTegnologie word gebruik om die ho\u00ebrisiko-gebiede gedurende werksure te monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie munisipaliteit se wetstoepassingsafdeling verrig ook gereeld patrollies by munisipale geboue, rioolaanlegte en munisipale fasiliteite om kabeldiefstal en vandalisme te help voorkom en ons bates te beskerm.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hierdie patrollies (wat dikwels gebaseer is op wenke wat van die gemeenskap ontvang is,) word tydens kantoorure sowel as tydens Eskom-beurtkragtye uitgevoer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDrakenstein-munisipaliteit skakel gereeld met al die relevante belanghebbendes in di\u00e9 veiligheidsnetwerk. 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