The Randburg Service Delivery Centre (SDC) hosted its inaugural security infrastructure engagement, involving community leaders, councillors, and security companies.
The meeting aimed to introduce City Power’s initiatives to enhance security measures for electricity infrastructure to minimise the inconvenience caused by outages due to vandalism and theft in the Randburg area.
City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena explained that they are trying to solve the problem of the high number of theft and vandalism cases, which cost City Power R113m (R8m for Randburg SDC) in the last financial year only (July 2022–June 2023).
“To eradicate tampering with our network, Randburg community leaders, councillors, and security personnel were invited to partner with City Power to assist in guarding the infrastructure. To date, we have installed 350 safety bars on electricity infrastructure and have approved 700 applications from communities interested in forming part of the solution, where 650 have been installed already.
Due to the success of this drive across the city, Randburg residents are invited to form part of the solution to secure the infrastructure, stay vigilant, and report any irregularities.
Randburg community leaders, councillors, and the security companies engaged with City Power’s security team to support the initiative to secure electricity infrastructure and reinforcing patrols by private securities, neighbourhood watch, and CPFs.
“In addition to the solution that we proposed, the community leaders indicated that they are willing to instal a concrete base for cables and a camera to monitor movement around mini-substations.”
The installation of safety bars in the Randburg area commenced on November 3, mainly focusing on mini-substations.
“Considering the size of the area, the process will take time. Therefore, we invite the community to help speed up the process by adopting electricity infrastructure in their community. By fostering a sense of collective responsibility, neighbourhoods can better protect this infrastructure.”
To guard the network, residents are advised to ask the following questions to any City Power employee or contractor:
- Job card for that day
- Job wayleave if they are digging
- City Power valid ID
- Take registration down
- Who of City Power gave him the work.
“If none of those can be presented, then risk management should be informed immediately. Any illegal activities can be reported directly to City Power’s risk control team, which is available 24 hours.”
Details: 011 490 7553; 011 490 7900; WhatsApp 083 579 4497.
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