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Mystery of the green lagoon Milnerton lagoon turned almost complete ly green last week Sunday, but a few days later the green goo mysteriously disappea red again. This is, however, a natural pro cess according to the City of Cape Town. Read more on page 3. Photo: Robert Lurie
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) Milnerton Watch congratulated
Crime rate down ANDRÉ BAKKES
Milnerton’s Central Business District has seen an annual 60 percent drop in crime over the past 10 years, which is directly related to the good work being done by the Milnerton Crime Watch Trust (MCW). The Milnerton police have also regularly praised the efforts of the MCW and have stressed the importance of mutual co-operation. “Since February this year the MCW has had phenomenal success.
In conjunction with the local police we have made over a dozen arrests for serious offences,” explains Craig Pedersen of MCW. In the first noteworthy incident, three men in their mid-20s attempted to break into a house in the Tulbagh Road vicinity. After a member complained of seeing a suspicious person on her property, patrolman Shaun Scott was on the scene within minutes and apprehended a suspect as he tried to escape. The other two were arrested by patrolman Michael Mentoor when
he saw them sitting in a “suspicious vehicle”. Pedersen elaborates: “A speedy response from the Milnerton Sector 3 vehicle ensured that the suspects were taken into custody and held on charges of attempted housebreaking.” Then at the end of February a woman was robbed at knife-point in the area of Ixia Street. MCW responded to a call from a neighbour who witnessed the incident and then Mentoor “scoured the area and noted a suspect matching the description within a matter of
minutes”. A knife was discovered on his person after a sector police vehicle arrived to assist. The man was eventually arrested. A few days later Sector 3 commander, Capt André Fourie and his team responded to information received from MCW and arrested a suspect in Albow Gardens in possession of a radio, which appeared to be used to monitor communications of security companies in the area. . To page 3.
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