Repeat perpetrator nabbed in Durban North area

A Blue Security armed response officer has received praise from local residents after he arrested an alleged trespasser who is apparently also wanted for other crimes in Umgeni Park, in the Durban North area.
Blue Security operations manager Brian Jackson said the armed response officer had been patrolling in Buttery Road at around 4.35pm yesterday when he saw two men jump over the front driveway gate of a property.
“When the men realised that our officer had spotted them they both attempted to flee the scene but our officer gave chase and managed to arrest one of the men. Our officer handed him over to the Greenwood Park SAPS who attended the scene of the crime,” he said.
Greenwood Park Sector Four Community Police Forum Chairman, Brian Daish, commended the armed response officer for his swift action and professionalism at the scene of the crime.
Daish said the officer had acted and arrested the suspect although he had targeted the home of a resident who was not a client of the company. “The resident’s security company which arrived later was supposedly in contact with the client, who told them not to lay any charges and that they were not interested in following up,” he said.
However, Daish said the arresting armed reaction officer had decided to detain the suspect until the police arrived on the scene. “I knew the suspect from a previous incident and another resident in the road also identified him as a house breaker who had been arrested previously on their property.”
Jackson said it was important to report crimes of trespassing, theft and vandalism which residents sometimes perceived as “petty crimes” that were not worth pushing for prosecution.
“The problem with turning a blind eye to these crimes, as this case illustrates, is that suspects are sometimes already wanted for other crimes like housebreaking and robberies. Crimes also escalate as criminals become more brazen when they manage to evade arrest or are arrested and then released without being charged with the crime,” he said.