IN THESE MODERN TIMES IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA THE END OF THE YEAR IS ALWAYS A VULNERABLE TIME. IT IS THE TIME THAT THE ZIM EXPATS RETURN HOME WITH ENOUGH MONEY TO CELEBRATE THE FESTIVE SEASON AND LEAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR FAMILIES TO SURVIVE ANOTHER 3 TO 6 MONTHS. YOU CAN BLAME THIS ALL ON ROBERT WHO HAS DONE NOTHING FOR HIS PEOPLE. THE ONLY WAY TO TOP UP THEIR RESERVES IS TO RESORT TO CRIME. ASK ME I HAVE HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE 3 YEARS AGO FROM A TRUSTED ZIM GARDENER WHO HAD WORKED FOR ME FOR 4 YEARS .

WHAT TO DO.

BE ON THE ALERT AND ENSURE YOU DO NOT KEEP MONEY ON THE PREMISES AND MAKE IT KNOWN. I HAVE A SIGN UP OUTSIDE MY PREMISES THAT WE DO NOT ACCEPT CASH, PAYMENT ELECTRONICALLY OR BY CHEQUE ONLY.

SECURE YOUR PREMISES. MAKE SURE THAT THE PHYSICAL SECURITY IS GOOD. ELECTRIC FENCES ARE ARE OK BUT SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY A GOOD SPIKING SYSTEM SUCH AS RAZOR SPIKE SUPPLIED AND FITTED BY RAZOR SPIKE INTERNATIONAL. IF YOU CANNOT GET ONTO THE TOP OF THE WALL THEN YOU CANNOT GET OVER. ELECTRIC FENCES ARE OFTEN TOO LOW,TOO FLIMSY, BRACKETS PLACED TOO FAR APART, OR NOT WORKING DUE TO POOR MAINTENANCE. THE RATING OF THE BEST ELECTRIC FENCE IS CONSIDERABLY UPGRADED BY INSTALLING RAZOR SPIKE. 

RAZOR SPIKE IS ALSO THE BEST STAND ALONE SYSTEM. THERE ARE 3 BASIC PRODUCTS, RAZOR 6, RAZOR 11 and SS BLADE TO CHOOSE FROM TO SUITE YOUR PARTICULAR APPLICATION AND BUDGET.

ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN IS MOTOR VEHICLE PROTECTION AND VEHICLE ACCESS INTO YOUR PROPERTY. BY FITTING CARSTOP BEHIND YOUR VEHICLE OR INSIDE YOUR DRIVEWAY GATES YOU WILL ENSURE THAT YOUR CAR WILL NOT BE STOLEN AND WHILST YOU ARE AWAY ON HOLIDAY NO VEHICLE WILL HAVE ACCESS INTO YOUR PROPERTY. A SOBERING THOUGHT. WE BELIEVE THAT ALL VEHICLE OWNERS SHOULD MAKE USE OF THIS PRODUCT AS IT IS CONSIDERABLY CHEAPER THAN THE INSURANCE EXCESS SHOULD YOUR CAR BE STOLEN.

IT IS GOOD PRACTICE TO REVIEW YOUR SECURITY SYSTEMS EVERY YEAR AND UPGRADE THEM FROM TIME TO TIME. THERE IS NO TIME LIKE NOW. REMEMBER YOU CAN ALWAYS REPLACE AN ASSET BUT YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REMOVE THE SCARS OF A BAD INCIDENT. 

HAVE A GOOD XMAS.

Gangsters’ paradises in SA

Western Cape, Free State and North West accounted for 4018 of the 15940 murders in the country. This means the three provinces recorded an increase of 4,2percent, 8,6percent, and 7,9percent respectively.

But KwaZulu-Natal has recorded a decrease of 12,9percent in murder, with 3749 bodies counted in the 2010/2011 financial year.

Murder dropped by 11percent in Gauteng which had 3257 murders while the Eastern Cape had 3187, saw a drop of 2,3percent.

Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Northern Cape had a drop of 16,4percent, 17,7percent and 6,6percent drop.

In South Africa as a whole, there has been an overall decrease of 6,5percent in this crime category.

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said during the 1994-1995 period the murder ratio stood at 27000.

The Western Cape is the only province that recorded an increase in attempted murder category with 29,8percent – 2162 as compared to 1707 in the 2009-2010 financial year.

Mpumalanga recorded the highest drop with 33,2percent followed by Gauteng at 19,5percent.

KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Eastern Cape recorded a decrease of 16,7percent, 13,7percent and 12,7percent respectively.

North West dropped by 9,5percent while Free State went down by 6,2percent and Northern Cape by 5,2percent.

The country’s overall drop in this category is 12,2percent compared to 6,1percent in the past financial year.

Mthethwa said though sex offences had gone down by 3,1percent, the number of reported rapes had risen from 55097 to 56272.

Free State recorded an 8,6percent increase in the category, followed by North West with 6,6percent and then Northern Cape with 5,2percent. Eastern Cape went up by 2,2percent.

Gauteng recorded the highest decrease with a 15,9percent drop while KwaZulu-Natal dropped by 5,4percent. Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Western Cape saw a 4,3percent, 3,8percent and 1,5percent decrease.

Should this be your right?

Most people live in complexes and this in most instances is not an option, never mind a right.

Most thefts are carried out at night from complexes or flats despite numerous security measures such as automatic gates or guards and criminals regularly breach the vehicle’s own security system.

You may ask “How can I secure my vehicle in these circumstances?”

Well for less than the cost of your insurance excess should you have your vehicle  stolen, you can now provide individual protection for your car as a once off payment from R 2200 and have the revolutionary CARSTOP fitted in your parking  space. To breach the system the thief would need to use a surface grinder or a jack hammer which is highly unlikely.

For a demonstration visit our Website www.razorspike.co.za

1 December 2004

Bryan Mincher, is the owner and manager of Razor-Spike International, a South African pioneering company that specializes in the manufacture and installation of patented Razor-Spike anti-climb wall spikes. Says Mr Mincher: “With crime levels soaring to unacceptable levels in South Africa today, weaknesses in perimeter security mean that it is just a matter of time before an incident occurs.  The ideal situation is to deter intruders from attempting to breach the perimeter. If the perimeter is not secure and allows intruders to gain access to a property easily, the chance of incident is very high.”

Demand for Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS) is coming from all sectors, from residential and business premises to parastatal and industrial.  This, he says, is evidenced by unrelenting demand for installations in prisons, government premises, foreign consulates, the defense force, townhouse complexes, security complexes, schools and domestic properties.

For Mr Mincher, anti-climb wall spikes, razor wire, electric fences and beams feature at the top of the list of priority deterrents in a system that should include the highest possible physical barriers.  “Walls should be at least 2,4m in height since perimeter security becomes less effective when it is at a height where it can be easily tampered with and neutralized.  A product installed on a wall of this height is a lot more effective than one on a 1,8m wall.  To this, a physical deterrent in the form of Razor-Spike should be fitted to the wall to prevent access to the top of the wall.  We believe that if you can’t get on to the wall, then you can’t get over it.”

He adds: “The need to have a dangerous physical barrier such as Razor-Spike installed on a perimeter structure as a first line of defense has become an absolute necessity with the increase in crime.  In addition, we are finding that combinations of other products such as electric fencing and beams are becoming essential as secondary lines of defense.  The more barriers a potential intruder has to neutralize, the less chance there is of the perimeter being breached.  And the problem of rising crime levels is not confined to South Africa – we’re exporting our products worldwide and our export volumes are growing each year as crime increases globally.”      

In Mr Mincher’s opinion, South Africa’s current crime statistics are not a true reflection of what’s really happening in the country.  “Crime here is without a doubt on the increase and especially rife within the domestic sector,” he says.  “Clients now have to protect their properties with a combination of products in order to stop intruders breaching their perimeter security.  Townhouse complexes have been hard hit by crime and are no longer the safe havens that they are marketed to be.  We advise clients to secure their units within their complexes with products such as Razor-Spike so as to better protect themselves.”

While electrified fencing occupies an important position in today’s perimeter security systems, it is far from being fail-safe and intruder resistant, he continues.  Electric fences are fine as a back-up to physical deterrents such as wall spikes, in his opinion.  However, they are not enough on their own to stop someone breaching a perimeter.  The answer is for electric fences to be connected to alarm systems or armed response companies to be effective. “We are finding that there is growing demand for properties with electric fences to have Razor-Spike fitted underneath the fences.  This is to deny access to the top of the wall and is especially true of townhouse complexes to the point where our advice to consumers is to fit electric fences only once proper anti-climb spikes are fitted to the wall.”

Features

• Virtually impossible to climb over
• Heavily ribbed for strength
• Galvanized against corrosion
• Powdercoating optional
• Double row of barbed wall spikes
• Easy to Install
• Maintenance free

Applications

• Perimeter Walls
• Gates + Fences
• Building roofs
• Upgrade electric fences by fitting Razor 11 under the fence.
• Domestic, Industrial, Commercial, Military, Correctional Security.

Features

• 3CR12 Grade stainless steel
• Extremely sharp edges
• Powdercoating optional
• Anti-Climb
• Easy to Install
• Maintenance free

Applications

• Fits to top rail of palisade fencing to prevent climbing
• Gates + Fences
• Precast walling
• Upgrade electric fences by fitting SS Blade under the fence.
• Chain link fences, wire mesh fences, diamond mesh fences