We would like to welcome you back home and to work, we hope you had a restful and festive Christmas break.
Below just a few items to kick off the New Year:

• Crime over December. We are pleased to be able to inform you that Sunninghill experienced its lowest crime in a number of years over December. Below for your info is a graph showing crime for the entire 2011 compared to the same period in 2010. We can be proud of our achievements.
• Sandton Saps Detectives. Sunninghill Community would like to congratulate and thank Colonel Killian and his team of detectives for their outstanding work in the numerous arrests recently. A number of criminals were recently arrested in connection with a house robbery in Sunninghill Gardens and in addition criminals were arrested in connection with a house breaking which occurred in Sunninghill Estates some two years ago. Well done!!
• Joburb Metro Police Department. Over December Superintendent Jona from the By-Law Management Unit of the JMPD contacted Sunninghill Community Security in the endeavour to forge a relationship with us. We were thrilled to meet Superintendent Jona who now forms a part of our security committee in Sunninghill. Superintendent Jona has already begun his work in cleaning up Sunninghill and you will start to notice the difference soon. Today he and his team began by removing all the illegal advertising trailers in our suburb.
• Paul Kruger. Many of you in Sunninghill will know Paul Kruger of Savika Armed Response who assists us so wonderfully in Sunninghill. Paul Kruger is in hospital at present and has been for the past week. Sunninghill Community wishes Paul a speedy recovery back to full health.
• Extra lessons for high school children. If you are looking for extra lessons for your children please visit www.sunninghillnews.co.za or www.sunninghillgardens .org.za for more information.
• Medical Receptionist required/Sunninghill Hospital. Experienced person required for front-line position in busy doctors rooms/medical environment. This role requires excellent people skills, patience, good communication skills in English as well as the ability to cope under pressure. Applicants must have good computer skills. Contactable references
  essential. Non smoker. Please submit CV to medicalreception704@gmail.com * Please not that we may not respond to each applicant individually and if you have not heard from us within 5 days of submitting your CV you should assume that the position has been filled

You will all know from previous emails and newsletters sent out by Sunninghill Community Security that the smash and grab problems that we have been experiencing over the past few years on the corner of Maxwell and Witkoppen roads have more or less come to an end since the installation of the thermal cameras sponsored by Eskom.  You will also know that this problem then moved to the Bowling Road Bridge as you enter Sunninghill.

 A few weeks back we sent out an email to the community asking for advice and suggestions on erecting some sort of barricade to prevent these criminals from performing their “smash and grabs” and escaping onto the freeway below.  We would like to thank all those who responded,  we received some excellent advice (and some rather amusing advice too).  A large volume of the community who did respond recommended a product known as ClearVu fencing supplied by a company called Cochrane International.  I contacted Cochrane to chat to them about this fencing. Much to my delight and after hearing about the security problems our residents and visitors to our suburb were experiencing, Cochrane International offered to erect their ClearVu fencing at this smash and grab hotspot free of charge as a service to the community.

Installation has begun and many of you might have already noticed it.  On behalf of the community of Sunninghill, visitors to Sunninghill and the Sandton Police (as we have discussed this problem jointly), we would like to thank Cochrane International for their generosity.  It is truly wonderful to know that there are individuals and companies out there that want to make a difference by giving back to the community, especially on important issues such as safety and security.

 We will as usual keep you all posted.

Sunninghill Community Security – security@suncomm.co.za

Thank you to the following for joining our Exco Directors and Community Staff:  Massmart, Wallmart, Builders Warehouse, Rawson Properties, Fluor, Reliance Auctions, Sunninghill Hospital, Waterfall Estates, Riverside Manor, DA Ward Councillor – Annette Deppe, Junior College, St Stephens Church, Syspro and many community residents.

A huge thank you to our Sunninghill Community EXCO member Andrew Speirs; Kerry Mawson and Jerry Tom for coming up with this initiative and for putting it all together.  For further info on the Stop Hunger Now project please visit www.stophungernowsa.org

It is with great pleasure that we wish to inform you all that Chilli Lane Shopping centre have signed up as a full member of the Sunninghill Community Ratepayers Association and Sunninghill Community Security.  By doing so Chilli Lane have not only shown their commitment to giving back to the community who shop at their centre but their contribution to Sunninghill Community will assist us greatly in continuing our work in ensuring that Sunninghill does indeed become “a great place to live, work & relax in a secure and beautiful environment”.

Thank you Chilli Lane and welcome to the Sunninghill Community family!!

Kind regards

Linda Gildenhuys and Kerry Mawson
Sunninghill Community

HOWEVER please be warned that over the past two weeks there have been smash and grabs on the cnr of Bowling and Witkoppen.  Most of these occur in Bowling Avenue just before the bridge heading towards Sunninghill and most have occurred at around 18h00.  Please keep your eyes open for anyone hanging around or walking on the pavement in this area and make sure all laptops, handbags and cell phones are not visible.
Regards
Linda Gildenhuys
Sunninghill Community Security – security@suncomm.co.za

“The vehicle that had 3 black males in it and they came to our offices in Rivonia under the pretext of looking at an empty one – but while they were being shown the office one of them sneaked off and started peering through the other office windows which all have companies in them – the other 2 tried to distract our security guard away from the third one with lame requests and excuses while the third was literally casing the place – they then saw an office door open and a laptop on the desk and tried to steer our guard away from the area while the third one moved over and hovered close to the open door – our guard managed to herd them all together and after a bit of a shouting session saw them off the property.”

Linda Gildenhuys – Sunninghill Community Security