PETITION TO GAUTENG PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE AND THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, SAPS PROVINCIAL COMMISSIONER AND NATIONAL MINISTRY

We the residents within the SAPS Erasmia precinct demand from the South African Police Services to improve the fight against crime in the rural areas due to the extensive criminal activity taking place in the following areas: namely Hennops River, Laezonia, Gerhardsville, Mnandi, Knoppieslaagte, Doornranje, Vlakplaats, and Schurveberge areas. We demand that the concerns listed below are adequately addressed:

  1. Response times to crime to be improved
  2. Adequate investigations and feedback be given on all cases registered at the above-mentioned Police stations
  3. Adequate and efficient resource deployment and patrolling in the rural areas
  4. Visible policing to be increased through daily patrols in the rural areas
  5. Regular operations be done around illegal undocumented foreigners in informal settlements
  6. The above-mentioned police stations are adequately resourced with personnel, facilities and vehicles

The total disregard for law and order has resulted in high crime rates and unresolved investigations in the rural areas of the SAPS Erasmia precinct.

We now require an urgent intervention at the most senior level to address the absence of any SAPS Patrol vehicles or the like at SAPS Erasmia. There is only one functioning vehicle which is shared amongst all SAPS officials, and which operates 24/7.

SAPS Erasmia services the following area:

  • SAPS Erasmia precinct perimeter: 75.8 km

  • SAPS Erasmia precinct area: 211 km2

According to previous CPF records, SAPS Erasmia is meant to be assigned a total of 32 vehicles, including patrol vehicles. There is only one operational vehicle. In 2019 Clr Kingsley Wakelin (now MEC Tshwane) and the Honourable Cilliers Brink presented a community petition to the then SAPS Erasmia station commander requesting the same intervention. No action was taken by SAPS and the situation has now deteriorated where the only resolution would be for residents to pay for the repairs of the SAPS Erasmia vehicles.

This situation is intolerable and notwithstanding the honest and determined efforts by the new Station Commander (w.e.f. March 2022) to secure these vehicles and resources (many of the historical vehicles are still sitting in SAPS repair shops for many years now) from SAPS, no such assistance has been forthcoming. In addition, SAPS Erasmia is still waiting for the much-promised new station facility (10 years or more by now), holding cells and GBV facilities and resources.

This lack of vehicles and other resources (sector policing phones, radios etc) is now a cause of significant concern to residents in Sector 2 and 3 of the precinct (being Laezonia AH, Rickaletta AH, Doornrandje AH, Gerhardsville, Hills and Dales AH, Hennopsrivier AH and Knoppieslaagte AH, Vlakplaats AH etc).

There is no Visible Policing, ability to attend crime scenes timeously or during emergencies, follow up investigations and the like. This represents a substantial risk to not only residents, but SAPS officers (there is no backup provided to them in emergencies), private security providers (who are able to detain suspects, many of whom are armed, but are unable to secure the assistance of SAPS or wait for hours to receive such assistance), residents (who wait hours for SAPS to arrive at crime scenes, if at all).

We have attached a link to crime statistics in this area (which border Olivenhoutbosch, Diepsloot, Mooiplaas and Spruit as well as Atteridgeville) demonstrating the locally reported crime and murders in this area.

Crime map of locally reported incidents: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1krB2ECIycICuwxdYsDcemIWqTyRUDlZN&usp=sharing

We now require an urgent intervention to resolve this and allow the Station Commander the resources to perform her duties.

We are all acutely aware of how quickly SAPS resources can be provided as was evident in events in Diepsloot recently with the sudden intervention of “our” Minister of Police and others: 16 police vehicles, 120 police officers, 25 home affairs immigration officials, and specialist investigation services.

SAPS Erasmia precinct residents.

SAPS Erasmia: Petition to SAPS

This petition is now closed.

End date: Jul 31, 2022

Signatures collected: 89

Signature goal: 200

89 signatures

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