Managers / Chairman’s Report 2015/2016 COMPILED BY: GLYNIS VAN LILL MANAGERESS PAROW INDUSTRIA IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION JULY 2016 PAROW INDUSTRIA IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NPC (REGISTRATION NO 2001/027476/08) Including Tygerberg Business Park CITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SPECIAL RATING AREA (CID / SRA) Securing Your Business Environment
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Managers /
Chairman’s Report
2015/2016
COMPILED BY: GLYNIS VAN LILL
MANAGERESS
PAROW INDUSTRIA IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION
JULY 2016
PAROW INDUSTRIA IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
NPC (REGISTRATION NO 2001/027476/08)
Including Tygerberg Business Park
CITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SPECIAL RATING AREA
(CID / SRA)
Securing Your Business Environment
INDEX
1. INTRODUCTION
2. MISSION / VISION STATEMENTS
3. SERVICES PROVIDED - ACHIEVEMENTS:
3.1 Management
3.2 Security / safety/Law Enforcement Initiatives
3.3 Cleansing initiatives
3.4 Urban Management Initiatives
3.5 Social Intervention Initiatives
3.6 Marketing
4. MEETINGS
5. FINANCIAL
6. NEW MEMBERS / DIRECTORS
MANAGER / CHAIRMAN’S REPORT: 2015/2016
1. INTRODUCTION
Since implementation on 1 August 2001, the operations of Parow Industria Improvement District
(CID) / Special Rating Area (SRA) have been based on an international practice model aimed at
preventing degeneration of cities and industrial areas into urban decay.
There is a continuous striving towards building confidence in the area as a safe, attractive and
clean environment in which to conduct business with special attention paid to core responsibilities
that encourage investment in the area, halt degeneration and promote economic growth /
sustainable development.
The (CID) has continued to provide a “top up” supplementary security and cleansing service.
During the period 1st November 2001 to 30th June 2016:
- 613 arrests were made by the CID security service provider
- 776 illegal dumping incidents were prevented by the CID security service provider
- 9 727 black bags / bins of litter were removed by the CID’s cleansing service
- 2 322 faulty street lights were reported by the CID to the City of Cape Town
- 1 577 405 km was travelled in patrols by the CID Security in the industrial area
- 153 enquiries were dealt with on the COCT integrated waste exchange website which
resulted in waste generated in the CID area, been diverted from landfill through re-use
- 22 jobs were created
2. MISSION / VISION STATEMENT
The CID has the following mission and vision statements: -
2.1 Mission Statement
Shall strive to develop and market a safe, secure, clean and attractive environment in which to
conduct business.
Vision: -
To decrease crime and grime in Parow Industria and Tygerberg Business Park through effective
security patrols, camera surveillance, deploying of mobile trailers to “hot spots” and the provision
of additional / supplementary cleansing services.
2.2 Mission Statement: -
To decrease waste and grime in Parow Industria by co-ordinating a project aimed at waste
minimization.
Vision: -
To decrease waste and grime in Parow Industria by creating a waste wise community incorporating
residents, scholars and industrialists, active participation in the City’s information waste exchange
website, formalizing of informal collectors, participation in schools re-cycling projects,
introduction of a drop-off and buy back centre, promoting of a waste minimization club all aimed
at reducing the amount of waste taken to landfill.
3. SERVICES PROVIDED / ACHIEVEMENTS
The achievement and success of the CID’s main objectives aimed at securing a safe, attractive and
clean business area require the provision of services as per an approved business plan (2015/2016).
The plan provided for numerous action steps with key performance indicators assigned thereto in
order to measure service delivery. A summary of the services provided during 2015/2016 in order
to achieve these objectives are indicated below: -
PAROW INDUSTRIA IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NPC
(Registration number 2001/027476/08)
Including Tygerberg Business Park
Securing Your Business Environment
3.1 MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONS
The CID/SRA is managed by a Board of five Directors elected by its members. Sight was not lost
of facilitating investment in the area, promotion of economic growth and sustainable development
coupled with new job creation activities. Services provided focused on safety and security,
cleaning, waste related / environmental issues, effective communication with property / business
owners, support to entrepreneurship with a selected local school, the presence of stray / neglected
animals and encouraging CID membership.
3.2 SECURITY / SAFETY / LAW ENFORCEMENT INITIATIVES
Statistics pertaining to pro-active and re-active services for the following periods are attached: -
- 2015 (January to December)
- 2015/2016 financial year
- 1999 to 2015
Kindly note that the statistics are based on information received from the SA Police, CID’s
Security and Camera monitoring service providers. The statistics are attached as per annexure “A,
B, C, D, E & F.
3.2.1 Crime
The CID regulates a service that includes liaison with the SA Police and CID Security Service
provider. This requires regular meetings with Management, numerous on-site visits and constant
evaluation of services. Decreasing crime in the area to a large extent depends heavily on the
effective services by the afore-mentioned.
Analysis of changes in crime patterns / threats / tendencies is ongoing. Keeping crime relatively
under control is achieved predominantly through security patrols in vehicles, deployment of
mobile trailer units equipped with cameras and effective monitoring of an 18 dome camera system
from a control room coupled with a close working relationship between the CID’s security service
provider and SA Police Service.
Responsibility and involvement on the part of the CID’s Members is equally important. During
the 2015/16 financial year, the CID once again continued to experience numerous incidents
whereby its Members failed to proceed with registering of criminal charges thereby allowing
offenders off the hook with a freedom to continue with criminal activity. Members were informed
in newsletters about the crime statistics and the potential impact of repeat offenders if not
prosecuted. The CID yet once again reminds its Members that the CID is a community and need
each other to ensure safety and security. As such Members are obligated to follow through on
cases that are reported to SAPS. This is in everybody's interest to retain the CID initiative as it is a
deterrent and a reminder that criminal activity will not be entertained. The benefits are obvious and
it will also attract the right investors whilst increasing the value of property in the area.
The CID continued to focus on Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) during
2015/16. CPTED incorporates the meaning of crime prevention through planning and design, the
link between crime and the environment with responsibility in that regard. Planning
recommendations cover vacant land, 24-hour land use, pedestrian use of infrastructure, equitable
provision of facilities and urban renewal. Design recommendations bring to the fore cross-cutting
issues such as lighting, landscaping, signage etc, soft open spaces, movement networks (taxis, train
stations), hard open spaces (pedestrian-friendly environments, informal trading), public facilities
and site layout / building designs.
The CPTED initiative addresses management issues on the basic elements of crime and a
combination of targeted measures to reduce crime. The intention is to promote cooperation
between the police, local government and other role players to improve local-level crime
prevention through designing environments that are safer. The CID has an important role to play
in shaping the built environment to create a safer community.
The following CPTED issues have been addressed by the CID during 2015/16: -
The CID regularly conducts street light checks and faulty lights are reported to COCT for
the necessary attention. The CID forwarded a request to the COCT for lighting to be
installed on the open piece of ground at the Belhar Station area next to Millennium Park.
This area was very dark and therefore a serious crime generator. An on-site inspection has
taken place by the COCT and the matter is currently receiving attention. In the interim the
CID approached the Body Corporate and Manager of Millennium Park to consider
implementing additional lighting on buildings bordering on this open piece of ground and
to re-adjust existing lighting to facilitate effective camera monitoring. This has had a
positive effect and the area can now at least be monitored from the nearby CID camera.
See “before” and “after” snapshots below taken off the CID surveillance camera.
NIGHT VISUAL FROM CID CAMERA “BEFORE”:
NIGHT VISUAL FROM CID CAMERA “AFTER” ADJUSTMENTS TO EXISTING LIGHTING