RAG Bedfordview

08/09/2026

🏡PROTECT YOUR HOME AND LOVED ONES WHILE SAVING ON ALARM MONITORING & ARMED RESPONSE‼️
📣RAG SPRING SECURITY SPECIAL!🌸🌼🌻🌿
We've got a super-special offer for new RAG members! Get FREE alarm monitoring & armed response until 1st December 2026, if you sign up with Residents Action Group (RAG) in September 2026.
If you aren't experiencing the RAG difference yet, don't delay - hurry and take advantage of our Spring Security Special!
📣RAG members, please share this special offer with friends, family members and neighbours so that RAG can protect them, too!
☎️072 159 8809
📧[email protected]

07/09/2026

❤️HOW WILL YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE THIS WEEK?

It’s Monday - a new week and a new opportunity to do good.

We are appealing to everyone in our community to start this week by opening your hearts to the homeless. It’s heartbreaking to see them begging and sleeping on our streets. Handing them cash and goods is not the solution as it can cause unintended harm by supporting dangerous addictions. Instead, we appeal to everyone to support our RAG fundraiser for The Manger Care Centre.
A registered NPO, The Manger believes that charity alone is not enough; true empowerment requires giving people the tools, dignity and opportunity to rebuild their lives. From destitute individuals and recovering addicts to the elderly and people with disabilities, The Manger’s programmes are designed to break the cycle of poverty through holistic support. In addition to providing shelter and meals, The Manger offers counselling and skills training, and helps to reintegrate its beneficiaries back into society. That’s why RAG supports The Manger, and we hope you will contribute to this important fundraiser.
To make a donation:
Residents Action Group
Standard Bank
Acc No 002635283
Make sure to use THE MANGER as the reference.

04/09/2026

The latest Stats SA Survey "paints a bleak picture of crime in SA homes".

Here's some of what the Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey found:

🔴More than 63 000 households experienced murder in the 2025/26 financial year, up from 59 000 the previous year. That’s a 6.8 percent increase.

🔴The increase comes despite police statistics showing that murders fell.

🔴Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke says many crimes are not reported to police.

🔴Housebreaking remains the most common crime experienced by households, with 2.3 million households reporting incidents over the past five years.

🔴More than 1.5 million households experienced housebreaking in the 2024/25 financial year alone.

🔴Of the 1.4 million incidents of theft of personal property recorded in the 2024/25 financial year, only 37 percent were reported to police.

Amid rising crime, Residents Action Group (RAG Security) urges our community to be extra security conscious, alert and vigilant. Are your home and loved ones protected by a professional, reputable alarm monitoring and armed response service provider (like RAG)?

This weekend (and every day), make sure that you:

✅Activate your beams early each evening – whether you are indoors or on your patio.
✅Set your alarm at night and every time you leave the house.
✅Are vigilant when driving home from restaurants or outings, especially when entering your property. Make sure you are not being followed.
❌Do not wear expensive jewellery and watches in public places. Criminals have “spotters” who look for luxury brands like Rolex watches in particular.
✅Always call in suspicious activity.
Always use THIS number to reach our 24-hour RAG Control Centre! Save it in your contacts. Make it a favourite.
☎️082 322 3333

You can read more on the latest Stats SA crime findings here:

South African households continue to face high levels of crime, with murder and housebreaking among the major concerns highlighted in the latest Statistics South Africa survey.

01/09/2026

THIS IS TODAY!🩸DONATE BLOOD & SAVE LIVES!
🗓️1 September 2026
📍Belgravia Bowling Club , 54 Florence Avenue, Bedfordview
⏰9am to 3pm
Join Residents Action Group (RAG) and our security partner, P&C Security Services, to donate blood, give hope and save lives.

28/08/2026

Did You Know?

RAG has an Emergency WhatsApp Group for our RAG members. This group is for reporting emergencies and incidents in our RAG area, as well as suspicious activity, people and vehicles. If you are a RAG member and you aren’t on the group, contact us to join. Let’s work together to keep our streets safer!

📧[email protected]

27/08/2026

🩸DONATE BLOOD & SAVE LIVES!

🗓️1 September 2026
📍Belgravia Bowling Club , 54 Florence Avenue, Bedfordview
⏰9am to 3pm

Join Residents Action Group (RAG) and our security partner, P&C Security Services, to donate blood, give hope and save lives.

27/08/2026

RAG'S LATEST TRAINING - FOR OUR PEOPLE AND OUR COMMUNITY

At Residents Action Group (RAG Security), we pride ourselves on our exceptional, dedicated people who all go the extra mile for our community. That’s why we invest in ongoing training, assessments and skills development.

Our RAG reaction officers recently completed:

🩸A “Stop the Bleed” course that expanded their First Aid and CPR skills to include vital training on responding to bleeding injuries. Stop the Bleed knowledge is important because someone can bleed to death from a major wound faster than emergency responders can arrive. Congratulations on your new skills, team!

🎯Also part of our recent training programme were sessions reinforcing RAG’s purpose, vision and values. Integrity, care, respect for all, safety first and excellence were among the areas covered. These reflect RAG’s vision to be the community security organisation that Bedfordview trusts the most. Thank you to all our members who have put their trust in RAG!

By empowering our employees, RAG is not only improving community safety, we’re improving South Africa. Skills development is key to fighting unemployment and creating a better future for all South Africans.

26/08/2026

📣RAG members! The latest issue of our RAG Cares newsletter should have landed in your email inbox. Here's a link in case you have missed it:

Rock-throwing incidents are a growing threat that we must all be aware of when on the road. Our community was shattered by the incident in which a woman lost her life on the R24 highway after a rock was thrown from Van Der Linde Road bridge. Our thoughts are with her loved ones. In this issue of RAG...

24/08/2026

ALL South Africans are paying the price for the rising crimes of infrastructure vandalism, cable and battery theft and equipment stripping.

These criminals are threatening the safety of our community by causing power and telecommunications outages AND they are making us pay more for these services. Infrastructure crime has been described as SA's "hidden tax" because the cost of replacing stolen equipment and securing vulnerable sites ultimately filters down to every one of us.

We need to stop it, and that starts with being alert and ALWAYS calling in suspicious activity, vehicles and people.

☎️Call RAG's 24-hour control centre on 082 322 3333 or 011 455 7022.

👀To spot these criminals, look for people working on utility poles, manholes, trenches or substations without official branded vehicles, proper high-visibility gear or valid IDs. They might be there at odd hours but they also operate in broad daylight. Don’t confront them! Call it in and let RAG investigate.

RAG is currently working on a solution to help secure our area’s substations, to reduce the risk of criminals breaking into them to steal components. Watch this space for more details.

21/08/2026

‼️A Friday reminder to our community that criminals work weekends! So don't be complacent about your security this weekend.
✅Activate your beams early each evening – whether you are indoors or on your patio.
✅Set your alarm at night and every time you leave the house.
✅Be vigilant when driving home from restaurants or outings, especially when entering your property. Make sure you are not being followed.
❌Do not wear expensive jewellery and watches in public places. Criminals have “spotters” who look for luxury brands like Rolex watches in particular.
✅Always call in suspicious activity.
Make sure that you always use THIS number to reach our 24-hour RAG Control Centre! Save it in your contacts. Make it a favourite.
☎️082 322 3333