{"id":20741,"date":"2013-06-27T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/spike-in-durban-north-robberies\/"},"modified":"2013-06-27T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:09:23","slug":"spike-in-durban-north-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/spike-in-durban-north-robberies\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike in Durban North robberies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \t                                <!-- Main Editorial Image --><br \/>\n                    \t\t\t      \t\t\t                                      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0e842_2835515952.jpg\" alt=\"Copy of crime scene\" title=\"\" class=\"pics\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"captions_credit_article\">Flickr.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">\n<p class=\"captions\">\n<p class=\"related_articles\">Related Stories<\/p>\n<ul class=\"menu_tab_lists_related\">\n<li><a class=\"related_articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za:80\/news\/crime-courts\/death-of-criminal-a-relief-for-residents-1.1532468\">Death of criminal a relief for residents<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--PSTYLE=WT Web Text--><\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Durban &#8211; Police have rejected a suggestion that a crime syndicate is targeting Durban North, with spokesman Thulani Zwane saying that there is \u201cno concrete evidence to that effect\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">This is despite reports from security companies whose staff have observed that, in most robberies they have attended, victims have said they were robbed by \u201ca gang of five armed men\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">This was reiterated by Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairman Hayden Searles, who said crime in the area had been \u201cfluctuating\u201d since April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cMost of these gangs operate in groups of between three and five, sometimes more,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s certainly been a spike in recent weeks. Most of the time it is smash-and-grabs &#8211; they derail the gate, smash the door open, and take whatever they want.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Depending on the victim\u2019s compliance, the robbers were not always violent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been fortunate that no one has been killed or seriously injured,\u201d Searles said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Blue Security director Darryn le Grange said seven robberies had been reported through the company\u2019s control centre since the beginning of the month. Most involved five men who held up families and robbed them of valuables and vehicles. In the latest incident, four robbers held up a business in Glen Anil and made off with chocolates, airtime and cash, driving away in a gold VW Golf with no registration plates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The 2011\/12 police crime statistics recorded 115 aggravated robberies and 589 home burglaries in Durban North. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cHousebreakings are the most common crime in Durban North,\u201d Marshall Security\u2019s Tyron Powell confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Security companies, the CPF and police were working together to ensure a united front. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">An operational control centre project would be monitoring radios of all security companies in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cThis ensures faster reaction times and assistance. Most companies in the area have come on board,\u201d said Zwane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Searles said: \u201cWe are not interested in politics. We are being terrorised and held to ransom by a small group of people and swift action needs to be taken.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\"><strong>The Mercury<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr.com Related Stories Death of criminal a relief for residents Durban &#8211; Police have rejected a suggestion that a crime syndicate is targeting Durban North, with spokesman Thulani Zwane saying that there is \u201cno concrete evidence to that effect\u201d. \u00a0 This is despite reports from security companies whose staff have observed that, in most robberies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-20741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}