Current RRA News

November 2011 Newsletter - Issue 26

The November 2011 Newsletter is now available for download here.

In this news letter: 

• Security huts upgraded
• Adopt-a-hut competition
• New contact number for Securitas patrol car - 074 477 7432
• New Securitas area manager is Mark Strydom
• Update - Tee street water leak
• Updated crime report
• RRA Business Classifieds

Click here to download the November newsletter (1MB)

RRA AGM - Chairman's presentation - Monday 17th October : 7 pm

If you were not able to attend the AGM on 17th October you can now view the slides presented by your chairman, Andy McDonald.

Click here to download a copy of the presentation in pdf format (3,2 MB).

In this presentation you can view:

• Membership growth over the years 
• Analysis of our six areas 
• Activities over the past year 
• News on the new guard huts and entrance signboards 
• Financial statements 
• How YOU can assist the RRA in the coming year. 

Yes We Can Do It with your Valued Help!

Census 2011

Stats SA, as a government department, is the only agency mandated to conduct the census, under the auspices of the Statistics Act (Act no 6 of 1999). Stats SA fieldworkers will be in your area from 10 - 31 October 2011, going door-to-door to conduct interviews.

Census officials can be identified as follows:
1) A yellow satchel with the Census and Stats SA logos
2) An A3-size book with a map of the area on the first page
3) A yellow bib with the Census and Stats SA logo
4) A black cap with the Stats SA logo
5) An ID card with a hologram of the Census 2011 logo (SA map with the words "You Count" below it).

The identity of these persons can be verified by calling 0800 110 248 or 080 236 787 2, which is toll-free from a landline.

The census questionnaire asks questions on demographics (sex, age, language, etc.), migration (where you live, have you moved), general health & functioning, parental survival, income, education, employment, fertility, access to services and mortality. Please note that section 16 of the Statistics Act obliges respondents to answer all questions asked of them. There is one question on income, and it does not ask your specific income, but asks you which range it falls into (e.g. R401 - R800; R801 - R1600, etc.)

Section 17 of the act guarantees that all information collected by Stats SA is confidential, and cannot be accessed by anyone outside of the organization. All Stats SA staff, both permanent and contract, have taken an oath of confidentiality. If this oath is violated, the offender is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding R10000 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months.

Enumerators may ask you for your telephone number; this is for quality check purposes only e.g. if the questionnaire shows that there is a 5-year-old in your household with a PhD, it will be easier to contact the household telephonically than to do a physical return visit to the household.

If anyone comes to your door claiming to be a census official and asks you for information such as your ID number, banking details, etc. they are not part of the census process and should be turned away immediately. 

August 2011 Newsletter - Issue 25

Contents:

• We've connected on Twitter and Facebook
  
• Reminder that new rates took effect from 1st July 
• Securitas security deals on Panic and Basic Alarm systems 
• New cell number for the Securitas patrol vehicle 
• Important numbers for Johannesburg city services 
• Pub quiz evening at Randpark Golf Club on 15th August 
• RRA Comedy Fundraiser 1 October at Randpark Golf Club 
• RRA AGM 17th October, Fontainebleau Community church 
• Crime report 
• Business classifieds 

Click here to download the August newsletter (390 kB)

Linden Precinct “Domestic Watch” - 2011 Crime Prevention Meetings

“For evil to triumph, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing”

The biggest problem the police have is lack of information! Where Domestic Watch meetings have been implemented in suburbs the crime has been radically reduced. Domestics DO know what is going on in our suburb!

All meetings are held at the Fontainebleau Community Church, c/o Rabie & 4th Ave., Fontainebleau, on the last Thursday of each month at 12 noon.

Penny Steyn is the co-coordinator, writer and presenter of all crime prevention lessons and requests R25.00 per attendee for her contribution to crime prevention in your suburb.    

Domestic Watch is not a “course” that begins and ends. It is an ongoing process of lessons teaching crime prevention and keeping abreast of current trends in criminal activity and methods of self and household protection against criminals.

Click here for more information, for the schedule for 2011, and the Registration form.

Special General Meeting 9 May 2011

The following new rates were agreed at the SGM held on 9th May.  These rates will take effect from 1st July 2011.

Click here to view the presentation from the meeting.  Contents:

• Update on membership 
• Security performance stats from Securitas (was Piranha) 
• Budget proposal for 2011/2012 
• New rates wef 1 July 2011 

SAPS Sector Policing - Notice from the Linden Community Policing Forum

There are now two police vehicles patrolling your suburb at any one time. Click here for the Linden CPF poster.

Protocol for reporting suspicious activity or crime in progress:

1. Press panic button if you have a security provider 
2. Call relevant sector vehicle  
3. Call 10111 

Sectors and vehicle numbers

Useful information on By-Law enforcement within the Johannesburg municipality.

Please download and read this useful document provided courtesy of the Linden Community Police Forum.