CRIME SCENE LED TO CPTED IN MAHIKENG

CRIME SCENE LED TO CPTED IN MAHIKENG

An impact was made in creating a visible, and safer environment at Rhodes Park near old railway station houses. This through the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) letsema campaign led by the Department of Community Safety and Transport Management.

A number of complaints were recorded by Imperial Reserve and Extention 38 residents who mostly passes through the area to get in town and claimed to be attacked by criminals.
Recently in September month, group of people shown the police a scene where they found a body of an african male covered with a duvet, naked on upper body.

With the arrival of pathologist and checked the body had multiple stabbing wounds all over, and bruises, sjamboked, broken left hand and left hip.
The deceased was certified dead by the EMRS and the body is reported to be at late twenties or early thirties and still unknown.

Provincial Secretariat for Police Chief Director Ms Mpho Rantona and the Department of Community Safety and Transport Management Portfolio Committee Chairperson Freddy Sonakile visited the ongoing letsema that is led by the Department at Rhodes Park, railways houses behind Transnet.
Rantona appreciated the stakehokders mostly the sorounding communities for working with the police and government as a whole.

“For us to win the fight against crime it requires an integrated approach and this letsama is proving that we can win this fight,” she said.
A District Development Model (DDM) approach which brought different stakeholders such as the Department of Public Works and Roads, Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, Mahikeng Local Municipality, Transnet, South African Police Service, Community Policing Forum (CPF) and community members from Extention 38 and Imperial Reserve.