Midrand crime

I was granted e-mail access to the Midrand crime stats for the last few days.

Note: 144 arrests.

Incident Alerts 27# - May 20 – May 26, 2011


Note: This information is compiled from a variety of sources including security companies, sector crime forums and the general public. Plurals indicate multiple incidents of the same nature.

Blue Hills AH Residential Robbery

Carlswald Theft of motor vehicles and motor cycle

Glen Austin AH Carjacking

Glen Austin AH Residential Robberies (numerous)

Halfway Gardens Residential Robbery

Halfway House Business Robbery

Halfway House Robbery with firearm

Halfway House Theft of motor vehicles and motor cycle

Kyalami AH Business Burglaries and house robbery

Kyalami AH Robbery with firearm

Noordwyk Business Burglaries and carjackings

Noordwyk Residential Robberies

PresidentPark House robbery

President Park AH Residential Robberies (numerous)

President Park AH Robberies with Firearm

Randjespark Theft of motor vehicle and motor cycle

VornaValley Residential Robbery

VornaValley Robberies with firearm

VornaValley Theft of motor vehicle and motor cycle

ARRESTS

144 arrests in this time period for incidents related to possession of burglary, kidnapping, armed robbery, cable theft and possession of stolen m/v.


TRENDS

More than substantial increase of incidents overall from last week;

Residential burlgaries are more than triple with the majority of incidents taking place Fridays and Saturdays between 6pm-2am – Fridays is the highest for MV theft and its happening in the mornings between 6-9:30am - highest in the afternoons while Thursday is highest day for robbery with a firearm;

Sector 1/ Glen Austin and President Park has very high incident levels with Noordwyk and Vorna Valley a distant second;