Public Safety projects are defined as :-
Projects aimed at reducing or
eliminating trauma in the daily lives of the general public and
emergency service personnel caused by the country’s two largest sources
of trauma, namely criminal actions and road accidents.
Public Safety projects may be :-
Preventative (e.g. improving
the criminal justice system which would deter potential criminals) or
Reactive (e.g. helping the
Police deal with criminals).
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SOME VERY SERIOUS STATS :-
100%
|
Of
the Matriculants who pass in 2007 :-
|
| 12% |
will
go to study at a University, |
| 7% |
will
go to a Technicon or College, |
| 30% |
will
find a job. |
| 51% |
will
not be able to find a job, BUT
|
33%
|
Of the
jobless will end up in jail
|
If this is what will happen to matriculants, can you imagine what will
happen to children who will not get their matriculation certificate?
"ROTARY AGAINST CRIME"
CONFERENCE
Comments on our Previous Crime
Conference held at the Ernest
Ullmann Recreation
Hall,
Alma Road,
Wendywood on Saturday morning 21 July,
2007
Open any newspaper or email account, or watch
TV, and the subject of crime is sure to be discussed.
The general public as well as businesses would
like to help, but often do not know where to go, or who to approach. The Rotary Against Crime Conference was
designed to show what is being done by successful anti-crime, and
enable you to decide which organisations you would like to help.
A survey recently released stated that 63% of South African
have done absolutely nothing about crime, despite virtually the entire
population being "up in arms" about crime. If you are
one of the 63%, now you can do something - attend our conference!
The crime statistics released in July 2007 indicates that
crime in general is decreasing, albeit at a low rate.
However, the following crimes have increased significantly since last
year by the percentages shown :-
- Bank robberies - 118%
- Robberies at business premises - 52.5%
- Robberies at residential premises - 24.4%
- Cash-in-transit heist - 21.9%
- Driving under the influence of alcohol or
drugs - 15.5%
- Commercial crime - 13.8%
- Drug related crime - 9.4%
- Truck
hijacking - 7.6%
- Illegal
possession of firearms & ammunition - 6.7%
- Car
hijacking - 6%
- Murders
- 3.5%
(Note
that the term "burglaries" applies to theft where the owners are not
present, whereas "robberies" signifies that the owners were present at
the time and were threatened by weapons and/or excessive force).
Criminals
are now viewing banks, business premises, and residential premises as
"soft targets".
The
good news - If
you are part of an organisation that does work in the literacy field,
Rotary can offer you text and reference books free-of-charge that you can
take "by the truck-load". Interested? - come meet us at the
conference! Please note that the following conditions apply
:-
- The books may be collected from the new Rotary Centre in
Bedfordview absolutely free of charge - but you will need to contact
Peter Makhari (kwatiron@icon.co.za) to explain your credentials and
arrange a visit to the centre.
- Books arrive in large quantities, but there are no
guarantees that by the time you find the book that there are other
copies of the books available.
- You will personally need to sort out the books you want,
and provide the necessary transport for the books from the Centre.
- The books may be given to any person or organisation for
literacy project purposes, provided the end users are people who can
not afford to buy books.
- The books are not permitted to be sold.
- All person who receive book need to be informed that they
are receiving the books due to the Rotary International book project.
Conference
Objective :-
1) To give the general public an idea of what
various anti-crime
organizations have accomplished to date. This enabled
the
conference attendees to give support to the
more successful organizations.
2) To give the
various anti-crime organizations the chance to
network with each other and permit them to work together to achieve
greater
success.
Programme
Introduction - To
download Derrick Willcock's introduction, click Introduction
2007
Precinct Web
- Geoff Green gave a presentation on their Precinct Web site,
and discussed a number of disturbing crime trends. To download
the stats Geoff was presenting, click Are we our own
Worst Enemy?
Business
Against Crime - The CEO,
Siphiwe Nzimande gave a presentation on the Government's "Step Change
Against Crime" initiative.
To download the Power Point
presentation, click Step
Change in the Fight Against Crime.
NOAH
- Pat Sullivan gave a presentation showing how NOAH was handling
the AIDS orphans situation.
Victim
Support - Carol van Zyl gave a presentation on the volunteer
requirements and role of Victim Support.
Women for
Peace - Wendy Simons gave a talk on the varied activities
engaged in by "Women fo Peace". Please click Women
For Peace
to download Wendy's Speech.
Men-on-the-side-of-the-road
- Thomas Sithole gave a talk about the organisation and their "tool
library"
Police
Reservists - A presentation on how to become a Police reservist,
the duties of Police Reservists was given by Anthony Saffer.
Please click Police
Reservists to download Anthony's presentation
(Please
note that this site will be updated as and when the above speakers'
presentations are received.)
Our Previous Conference :-
"TACKLING
TRAUMA
THROUGH
PUBLIC-PRIVATE
PARTNERSHIPS" -
ORGANISED
BY THE
DISTRICT 9300 PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
Most public
minded people would
like to assist in the elimination of violent crime and horrific road
accidents
that plague our province, but often don’t know how to go about it, or
where to
start.
This conference was specifically
aimed to address this need, and give people a number of useful ideas.
The World peace Committee have
been extremely fortunate in getting a top panel of nationally and
internationally known experts in the various trauma related fields to
give us
their latest findings.
You missed the conference, but at least you now have the opportunity to
view the various speaker's presentations.
“TACKLING
TRAUMA
THROUGH PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS”-
CONFERENCE SPEAKER
PROGRAM
8:00 to 8:30 a.m.
Registration and Refreshments
8:30 to 9:00
Peter
Margolius, District
Governor, opens the Conference, and explains the conference theme.
9:00 to 9:30
Kenny Fihla,
CEO of Business
Against Crime on “Current Crime Statistics versus the Public’s
Perception of
Crime”, as well as "Public-Private Partnership against
Crime". Click
Here To Download Kenny's Presentation
9:30 to 10:00
Dr Craig
Donald – CEO of
LeaderWare, Author of numerous articles, and industrial psychologist on
“Selection & Training of Effective Control Centre
Staff”. Click
Here To Download Craig's Presentation
10:00
to 10-30
Refreshments
10:30 to 11:00
Rudolph
Jacobs, ex SAPS, recently
returning from giving his presentation in Australia
on “The Success Achieved in Combating Crime in Three Rivers,
Vereeniging” Click
Here To Download Rudolph's Presentation
11:00 to 11:30
Dr Bruce Young
of SASOL on “How
to Track Criminals using your Cell Phone” Click
Here To Download Bruce's Presentation
11:30 to 12:00
Bennie van
Rooyen, Assistant
Director of Ekurhuleni Metro Police on “Investigation of Motor
Vehicle
Accidents - a perspective". Click
Here To Download Bennie's Presentation
12:00 to 12:30 p.m.
Panel
discussion – interactive
session with the floor, the speakers and the World Peace Committee
members.
Cost of the conference – R30 per
person, to cover the refreshments.
A light lunch
may be ordered by
those delegates who wish to stay and network.
Results
of the Conference
If you did not attend this conference, you really missed
out! The Committee was congratulated by many who
attended, and comments such as "This was the best conference I have
ever attended" were commonplace.
Some facts that emerged at the conference :-
Crime statistics indicate that crime is being lessened, but the public
perceive that crime is constantly getting worse.
Most people complain bitterly about crime, but are generally ill
informed, and unwilling to do anything whatsoever about
crime. Its "someone else's problem" is their attitude
- until they get attacked, and they find that it is also their problem.
Anyone who thinks that Local, Provincial, and National Government are
going to make any real impact on crime, especially at residential
level, is dreaming. Government does not have the resources or
the resolve. Unless the communities spring into action, and do
things themselves, nothing good will happen.
The general public is becoming paranoiac about crime, and are
imprisoning themselves behind high walls, giving the criminals freedom
of movement.
Most South Africans flout the law. For example, when was
the last time that you drove your car and did not exceed the speed
limit at any period during the trip? We are now suffering
from a moral and ethical degradation - "anything goes" as long as we
don't get caught. When South Africa was regarded one
of the top countries in the world from a productivity perspective, we
were prepared to live according of a set of rules. Now we don't
care.
Rotary and other similar organizations have to be very careful about
using volunteers in areas where legal liability exists.
For more information, please download the presentation material
below.
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