Crime Prevention : Safety Tips

Safety Awareness while Shopping

• Stay alert at all times when shopping.
• Avoid carrying a huge amount of money.
• Put your wallet in the front pocket of your trousers or the inside pocket of your jacket.
• Always carry your handbag in such a way that it will not be easy for someone to snatch it.
• It is not advisable to carry a large sum of money around.
• Avoid asking anonymous people directions or checking your map in the public eye.
• Do not leave your handbag in your shopping trolley.

Safety Awareness with Suspicious Articles

• Do not handle or approach a suspicious article;
• Report the suspicious article to security and management;
• The decision to evacuate the entire building lies with the management of the institution;
• All persons in the intermediate area must be evacuated;
• Contact the SAPS Explosive Unit;
• The evacuation of a building should be conducted in the following manner:
  • Remain calm and do not run,
  • Take vehicle keys and handbags with,
  • Use the staircase and not the evaluator,
  • Help children, physical disabled and elder people,
  • Report at a central point away from the building and
  • Report missing colleagues

Safety Awareness with Liquor

It is an offence to:

• manufacture or distribute liquor without a licence;
• sell or supply liquor without a license;
• manufacture, sell or supply any undrinkable substance or add an undrinkable substance to liquor;
• supply liquor or methylated spirits to an employee in lieu of payment;
• advertise liquor in a false or misleading way;
• advertise liquor in away that intends to target or attract minors (persons under 18 years).
  
  Do -
  think before you drink, before you drive;
  report all illegal trade of liquor to the nearest police station;
  discourage the abuse of alcohol;
  discourage minors from drinking liquor.
  
  Do not -
  support illegal liquor outlets;
  drink and drive;
  supply or sell liquor to intoxicated persons or minors;
  drink while you are pregnant;
  drink liquor in public places.
  
  Procedure to Be Followed When You Wish to Blacklist Your Stolen Cellular phone:
  • Inform your network provider of your loss:
    • Cell C: 140 from Cell C numbers or 084-140 from other cellular phone networks.
    • MTN: 173 (pre-paid) or 808 (contract) from MTN numbers or 083-1-173 from a landline or other cellular phone networks.
    • Vodacom: 111 from a Vodacom number or 082-111 from a landline.
  • You will then receive a reference number to prove that your cellular phone has been blacklisted.
  • Report the loss of your cellular phone also to your nearest police station by providing the reference number of your black-listed cellular phone.
  • The police will then register a case.
  • A national police coordinator will receive monthly reports of the number of cellular phone that have been robbed and stolen all over the country.
  • He/she will then compile a national database of cellular phone that had been black-listed in that month.

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