Combined efforts lead to seven arrests
Blue Security reaction officers, residents and police arrested seven robbers in the Highway area recently.
QUICK thinking Blue Security reaction officers, the police and local neighbourhood watch members fought back against crime in the Highway area and arrested a total of seven alleged housebreakers and thieves during the past three weeks.
The managing director for Blue Security, Darryn le Grange, said the arrests were a result of a team committed to fighting crime and co-ordinated communication between clients, the security company and the police, proving that it was possible to make a difference by working together.
“In one of the incidents last week in Rooseveldt Road in Winston Park, a reaction officer arrested an alleged housebreaker after a security guard provided him with an accurate description of the intruder,” Le Grange said. “He was taken to Kloof SAPS where he was charged with trespassing and malicious damage to property.”
A Blue Security reaction officer who interrupted, confronted and attempted to make an arrest, was injured by the two armed thieves that had stolen from a business in Goshawk Road. “The thieves entered the property, smashed two windows of a truck parked on site and held up the driver,” said le Grange. “They stole cash and a cellphone. They then forced open a container to see what else they could steal, when our reaction officer arrived on the scene. He arrested one thief but the second man stabbed him in the hand and they both fled the scene.”
In another incident, a Blue Security reaction officer chased a thief that attempted to steal four garden chairs in Davidson Road in Pinetown . “The reaction officer was on his routine patrol when he saw the thief with the chairs and gave chase. The thief dropped the chairs and fled. The reaction officer returned the stolen chairs to the resident,” said le Grange.
In a separate incident in Hill Street in Pinetown an alleged housebreaker was arrested when a security guard caught him tampering with the door to a restaurant.
“The housebreaker was detained by Pinetown SAPS members who attended the scene,” said le Grange. “In another incident the cashier at a petrol station in Underwood Road arrested a man in the shop after he allegedly tried to walk out with two cans of oil without paying. He was also handed over to the Pinetown SAPS.”
Le Grange said police had arrested a man in Old Main Road in Hillcrest after he had brazenly walked into a shop in broad daylight, grabbed a laptop and fled with the stolen computer.
