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Dear Residents,

As the year rushes to a close this will be our last monthly electronic letter until January 2005. We hope you have found these letters informative as we try and keep you in the picture with whatıs going on in your suburbs.


Security
An Extraordinary Meeting to resolve the future of the CPF in the Parkview police precinct was held on Tuesday, November 23rd. This was a serious issue.  Unfortunately, there was a pretty average turnout to deal with such an important subject. The meeting was chaired by the Area Head of the CPF and itıs objective was to recruit a new Executive for the Parkview CPF with nominations from the Parkview precinct area.  

The CPF is an important link between the police station itself and the residents of the various suburbs through their residents associations. Over the past few years the Parkview CPF, under the leadership of Fran Haslam, has been a proactive and efficient organisation and has cooperated closely with the objectives of the CraigPark Residents Association. We would like to thank her and her committee for the amount of work they put in to assist the station under Superintendent Ian Loubser. Their resignation comes at a time when the crime situation is reducing somewhat but Parkview is still confronted with major issues which need to be resolved. As said to you before, these crime issues continue to be housebreaking and car theft amongst others.  

It was important therefore that a new committee needed to be created urgently so that the new body could carry on with the good work which has gone on before it. The meeting saw eight people from the various suburbs in the precinct volunteer to serve on the CPF and this comes into play with immediate effect. The new committee will appoint a Chairperson. Who this is will be advised in the near future. We are pleased that for the moment most issues have been resolved and it is now up to the new CPF committee to come to grips with any problems which need to be resolved at the Parkview police station.  


Domestic Watch
As you know, we have been holding Domestic Watch meetings in both Craighall and Craighall Park on a monthly basis in recent years. These meetings were successful in terms of bringing the domestics in our community into the main stream of our suburban security activities. In recent times attendance has been falling off slightly and we need to resuscitate our original objectives with some new ideas. Accordingly, Margaret Stewart (Craighall Park) and Amy Allan (Craighall) together with our Chairman have set up a new programme for 2005. Essentially, the new domestic meetings will be held on a quarterly basis and will widen the scope of the presentations to create a wider interest.  

As an example, the first meeting will be held at the end of January 2005 and the subject will be various banking and financial issues that our domestics are confronted with in this age of electronic and mechanised banking. This will include a further insight for them (in their own language) such as the new bank accounts that have been set up for people who had been previously kept out of the banking loop. The name of the project will change from Domestic Watch and you will be advised as to what this will be early next year. Security will continue to be on the agenda as this is an important link between our communities and the police.  


General
Lastly, weıd like to apologise for a couple of gremlins which crept into the latest Crier currently on its way to you. The serious one is that the annual subscription account on the back page refers to 2004 and should be 2005!. Our street reps are trying to change this but inevitably some of it will escape through the net. Once again our apologies. This document is obviously very important to the CRA for continuity of cash flow so I guess we must accept that the Christmas spirit got a-hold on us a little too early!

Once again, we wish you and your family and domestics Happy and safe holidays and look forward to further discussions and activity in 2005.  

Best regards

The CRA Executive Committee