News24 | ‘Look Something? Speak Something’: Cape Metropolis’s crackdown on crime in public housing

The Metropolis of Cape Metropolis Human Settlements MMC, Carl Pophaim, joined law enforcement companies to open a novel marketing and marketing campaign called ‘Look Something? Speak Something’. (Fb: CllCarlPophaimDA)

• The Metropolis of Cape Metropolis is cracking down on criminals who abuse public housing leases.
• A novel marketing and marketing campaign – “Look Something? Speak Something” – targets to make stronger public housing security.
• The Metropolis manages extra than 45 000 apartment residences, housing about 160 000 tenants.

The Metropolis of Cape Metropolis has taken a troublesome stance in opposition to criminals who abuse public housing leases.

On Monday evening, the Metropolis’s MMC for human settlements, Carl Pophaim, joined law enforcement companies in Lavender Hill.

The goal was to pressure awareness that teamwork might per chance presumably back flush out criminals and unlawful occupiers in public housing.

The Metropolis has extra than 45 000 apartment residences, accommodating some 160 000 tenants.

Pophaim stated the operation in Lavender Hill marked the preliminary piece of the Metropolis’s marketing and marketing campaign: “Look Something? Speak Something”.

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“We are unequivocally closing the door on prison actions, prioritising no longer top possible the protection of our tenants, nonetheless also that of our devoted officials who tirelessly back these communities each day.

“This marketing and marketing campaign serves as a resolute call to action for communities to collaborate with us, facilitating the eviction of tenants partaking in illicit behaviour and guaranteeing that Metropolis properties produce no longer back as hubs for prison enterprises,” he stated.

“We’re taking attend our public housing for safer communities. The Metropolis’s groups are exhausting at work, nonetheless we need the back of our residents and tenants to yarn crime and unlawful occupation. By working together, we’re going to create safer communities.”

The selling and marketing campaign is section of the Metropolis’s funding of extra than R1 billion into public housing over the next three years.

Pophaim added:

“Therefore, the name, ‘Look Something? Speak Something’. We’re calling on everybody to yarn. And here is section of increasing and rising the work performed by our social housing and public housing sector security units, which is going into communities, to back contravention notices where folks are obstructing their hire,” he stated.