Page 8 - Dainfern Precinct Living Issue 10 2022

BDA News

BDA
EMERGENCY

071 853 8413

NUMBER

CAT BURGLAR

APPREHENDED

or some time, residents were all Vumacam cameras to their national
puzzled by intrusions into the command centre for immediate
Festates that resulted in valuables analysis, to either utilise pro-actively
being stolen on a regular basis. But to prevent crime by alerting staff of
the BDA and Fidelity stepped in and approaching crime threats, or to be
successfully managed to apprehend utilised reactively in the investigation
the culprit. of crimes.
Fidelity, in conjunction with the BDA, The Greater Fourways FADT/Vumacam
initiated the deployment of several network was key to the arrest by
cameras along Broadacres Drive linked the Fidelity Estates Division, of the
to the Gauteng Vumacam network and so-called ‘cat burglar’ who had been
the National Fidelity ADT LPR network. terrorising the community in recent
These cameras use sophisticated months. The evidence contributed
Artificial Intelligence technology to to the successful prosecution of
detect suspicious movement and this suspect, which saw him being
communicate such events to the Fidelity sentenced to 15 years in jail.
national command centre for action.
To report crime-related incidents in
Fidelity’s unique partnership with the precinct, the emergency number
Vumacam allows for a direct feed of to call is: 071 853 8413.

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