Security structures in Parklands, Table View and Melkbosstrand spent their 67 minutes making the surrounding communities a safer destination on Mandela Day, which was commemorated last week Monday (18 July).
Parklands, Table View, and Melkbosstrand neighbourhood watches, as well as the Table View Community Police Forum celebrated Mandela Day with various patrols, and food donations to those in need.
Parklands
The Parklands Neighbourhood Watch conducted a high visibility patrol on Mandela Day showcasing to the community the work the security group does. Part of this patrol was UPC Tactical Secure Protection, Community Medics, TableView Police Station, DSS Security and Green Platoon.
Patrollers came together at a shopping centre to create awareness on the different organisations protecting the community, while enjoying some pizza and coffee.
Table View
The Table View Neighbourhood Watch chose to spend their 67 minutes earlier, and invited its volunteers and various armed response companies for a static patrol on Saturday 16 July.
“It ended up being a rather busy evening with multiple incidents occurring which ourselves and the armed response companies attended to,” said Laura Outhet, spokesperson of Table View Neighbourhood Watch.
Sector three of the Table View Community Policing Forum (CPF) tries to assist those in need, from the elderly, to nurses and children, every year on Mandela Day.
“Last year the CPF sector three dropped biscuits off for the nurses working at Dunoon Clinic and Blaauwberg Hospital to thank them for all their time during the Covid-19 pandemic,” explained Carol-anne Avery, chair of Table View CPF, sector three.
This year the CPF came together with the community to donate packs of instant soup for hungry mouths at Bloubergrandt High School.
“We collected over 1 384 soup packets, and 1 200 cups and stirring sticks,” Avery said.
“A teacher who resides next door to Natalie Asquith, our CPF sector three vice-chair, mentioned that many kids at the school do not have food and come to school hungry and how difficult it is to teach children when they are hungry,” says Avery.
Melkbosstrand
The neighbourhood watch in Melkbosstrand has recently seen an increase of graffiti in certain parts of the neighbourhood and celebrated Mandela Day by repairing the surfaces that have been vandalised.
“The neighbourhood watch members assisted the Melkbosstrand Ratepayers Association to paint over the graffiti while our patrollers were extra vigilant in trying to spot the culprits who were defacing walls in the town,” said Rhine Barnes, chair of Melkbosstrand Neighbourhood Watch.
