It is a great achievement for the Maitland CID.  Following extensive planning and consultation the Maitland CID has partnered with various NGO’s to assist the management of the CID in taking homeless people off the streets of Maitland.  But simply putting people in a shelter without any means to sustain their stay at the shelter does not support a long term plan.

In turn Geocentric, the management company for the Maitland CID, employed a project manager and devised a social works programme.  The programme is designed to provide gainful employment to previously homeless people now living at the various shelters in the area, thereby assisting them to remain off the streets and living in dignifying circumstances.

Each work team consist of three workers.  With the consent of the City of Cape Town the team will perform urban maintenance tasks in the Maitland CID area including additional cleaning, the fixing of kerb stones, sidewalks, paving and road signs.

Many of our businesses in the Maitland City Improvement District (Maitcid) area generate recyclable waste on a daily basis.  It has become common practice for some of our businesses in the Maitland CID area to simply dump cardboard and other waste on the sidewalks in front of their businesses with the expectation that vagrants will collect the material.  We urge all our businesses to please stop this practice and joint our recycling project in the Maitland CID.

In line with the goals of the Maitcid we approached the City of Cape Town to assist us in identifying a suitable recycling company to partner with the Maitcid to initiate a recycling project.  Walker’s Recycling, a registered recycling service provider with the City of Cape Town has been selected to work with the property and business owners and the Maitcid to initiate and sustain this recycling initiative.  Their core recycling services focuses on glass, cans, card board, paper and hard plastics.

Please support our efforts to formalize recycling in the area and keep Maitland clean.  Please find the contact details for Walker’s Recycling below:

•    Edward W. Walker Jr
•    083 508 1177
•    walkersrecycling@mweb.co.za

The Maitland CID planned and executed a number of night-time operations with the Maitland SAPS during the festive season and into January 2013.  Following some of these operations a number of persons were charged for traffic related offences sending a strong message to transgressors that the Maitland area is well policed.  In two instances measurable quantities of drugs were also found.

Bag with “tik lollies” found

Dagga found

Since December 2012 the Maitland CID deployed the mobile command post every day.  The mobile command post was donated by the Department of Community Safety.  The command post is used as a reporting point for our public safety patrollers and as a contact point for the public.   Since its deployment the SAPS and other Law Enforcement agencies have used the command post as a mobile office during operations.  It is also used to distribute public information pamphlets on safety issues.

Please feel free to visit our mobile command post should you need any assistance.  A patrol officer is always in or near the command post and can assist you.

We are very proud of our new look!  Our MaitCID patrol officers now have a brand new and fresh look with high visibility reflective jackets.  Geocentric, the appointed management company for the Maitland CID partnered with the Safety Lab and the Centre for Criminology at UCT to develop a training course for public safety patrol officers.  This course was attended by the MaitCID patrol officers over a 6 week period. Following the extensive retraining programme our patrol officers were issued with their new high visibility clothing.  The new look enhances public visibility and also promotes the public awareness of the patrollers.

Lt Col Hermanus and Capt Solomons (Maitland SAPS) joints hands with Gene Lohrentz (COO of the Maitland City Improvement District) in the fight against crime

The Maitland City Improvement District (Maitcid) has joined hands with the Maitland SAPS in fighting crime in the Maitland Area.  This new partnership was clearly demonstrated during a joint operation of Maitcid and the SAPS with a two-hour road block i=on the corners of Voortrekker and Station -Roads recently.

Many of the transgressions related to taxi operators driving without licenses or with unlicensed vehicles. “Some offenders simply stop in prohibited areas or load and unload passengers without any respect for the traffic rules or other road users” says Gene Lohrentz, Chief Operations Officer for the Maitland CID.

The Maitcid has a very good working relationship with the Maitland SAPS and various joint public safety operations are planned for the months to come, especially during the festive season fast approaching.