Sunninghill Community Ambassadors

Dear Residents/Businesses

Sunninghill Community Security is about to launch a new initiative to combat crime and grime in Sunninghill.  This initiative will be an add on to the existing security measures of pro-active dedicated Savika Armed Response vehicles and live monitored CCTV camera’s and ratepayer functions performed.

The “Pilot site” for this new initiative will be Sunninghill Estates.  Should the initiative achieve the desired results, it will be expanded and rolled out to other areas of Sunninghill. What is the new initiative?

Sunninghill Community plan to deploy, in Sunninghill Estates, “Sunninghill Community Ambassadors”, 4 to be more precise.  These ambassadors will be dressed in Sunninghill Community uniform and will wear reflected bibs, clearly marked with the words “Sunninghill Community Ambassadors”.  They will be issued with two-way radios and will be in constant contact with the Savika Armed Response control room, dedicated patrol vehicles and the Sunninghill Community office.  The Ambassadors will fulfil a variety of functions.  Each will be given a route to patrol where they will: 

• Keep their eyes open for dumping and report any culprits or dumping sites to our office;
• Pick up litter on their route keeping the streets as clean as we possibly can;
• Remove unwanted and illegal posters
• Keep a lookout for open gates; poor security and report back to Savika;
• Keep a lookout for loiterers; vehicles parked at the side of the road with occupants in them; any suspicious activity.  Although these ambassadors will not fulfil or react to any security issue, they will report such to Savika for action.
• Assist us by reporting water leaks, potholes developing, streetlights not working etc allowing us to chase these up with the authorities as soon as they occur. 

Only un-employed staff will be sources so that we are not only helping our area but putting food on some families table.

Why Sunninghill Estates for the pilot site?  Due to the demographics of Sunninghill Estates it makes it a lot easier for us to measure the success of this initiative.  We are experiencing a number of issues with regards to dumping, service delivery issues such as streetlights not working, water problems and we have seen an increase in criminal activity in this part of Sunninghill that we have not seen in the other parts of Sunninghill recently.  

We hope to have these Ambassadors in place within the next few weeks and we ask that you all assist us with the measurement of this trial initiative.  As with all new measures put in place, we do expect to go through the normal teething period.  Please be our eyes and ears out there.  Don’t complain, work with us rather.  Don’t issue instructions to the Ambassadors, but report to us the good and bad and more importantly help us make a success of this.  Be friendly to our ambassadors and they will I am sure return the friendship and tackle their jobs with enthusiasm. 

We would like to thank Savika Armed response for supplying the Sunninghill Community Ambassadors with two way radio’s at no cost to Sunninghill Community.  

All issues with regards to the Sunninghill Community Ambassadors can be reported to myself on security@suncomm.co.za or via our website: www.sunninghillnews.co.za

 Linda Gildenhuys – Sunninghill Community Security – security@suncomm.co.za 083 440 2381