DPV Neighbourhood Watch

08/09/2026

08/09/2026

🎥 WHY WE’RE FUNDRAISING FOR BODY CAMERAS for DPVWATCH

Our DPVWATCH patrollers are volunteers. They give their own time to patrol our neighbourhood and help keep our community safer. 💚

We now want to give them another important tool — body cameras.

Body cameras can help:

🛡️ Protect our volunteer patrollers
🎥 Provide an objective record of incidents
🔎 Capture valuable evidence
🤝 Improve accountability and transparency
⚠️ Help de-escalate difficult situations
📝 Support accurate incident reporting

Most importantly, they provide an additional layer of protection for the people who voluntarily put themselves out there for our community.

They give us their time. Let’s help give them the tools they need.

💚 Please support the DPVWATCH Body Camera Fundraiser.

Every contribution, big or small, gets us closer to equipping our patrollers.

Safer patrollers. Stronger community. Together.

27/07/2026

27/07/2026

DPVWATCH | Vredehoek CID Information Series

Over the next few days, DPVWATCH will be sharing a series of posts to help residents better understand the proposed Vredehoek CID.

As your neighbourhood watch, we support initiatives that strengthen safety, security and service delivery within our community. We also believe that informed residents make the best decisions.

Our role is not to tell residents how to vote, but to:
✅ Share factual information
✅ Encourage constructive discussion
✅ Help ensure everyone has the opportunity to understand the proposal before making their own decision

If you have not yet had the opportunity to review the draft Business Plan, we encourage you to do so. If there are any questions, concerns or suggestions, written public comments are open until today, 27 July 2026, before the plan is revised for the next stage of the process.

Thank you for taking the time to stay informed and participate in shaping the future of our community.

https://vredehoekcid.co.za/business-plan

Our Community. Our Voice. Our Safety.

The proposed Vredehoek CID is a five-year plan to fund supplementary public-space services in Vredehoek and Devil’s Peak Estate.

06/07/2026

SUCCESSFUL CRIME-FREE FRIDAY HELD IN CITY BOWL

On Friday 26 June, SAPS, LE, Metro Police, SANParks, Neighbourhood Watches and service providers such as Fidelity ADT and City Bowl Armed Response held a very successful joint operation in the City Bowl. The evening culminated in a combined patrol through the city and its residential areas and featuring these different role players. We look forward to more of these operations in the future. In the photo, the various role players are photographed assembled at SAPS after the initial briefing.

03/07/2026

DPVwatch are looking forward to this joint safety patrol with SANParks and members of TBKWatch tomorrow morning.

03/07/2026

Good morning, All. Many DPVwatch residents contribute to the safety and security of the Devils Peak and Vredehoek communities. Some give of their time to patrol, some respond when others need assistance, some do radio checks, some accompany groups on the mountains, some chop down trees when the storms blow them down, some help stablise trees when the storms try to topple them, some plan fundraising events, some enter the fundraising events or support the DPVwatch's initiatives, some offer of their time and energy to serve on the Exco, some send through incident reports, some search for lost furbabies or report these vulnerable ones when they are spotted, and some make regular donations. You are all greatly appreciated. Thank you!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

02/07/2026

DPVWATCH - IT’S ALL ABOUT CONSISTENCY!

So many people show up consistently to assist when necessary and DPVwatch thanks one and all for their help and energy. Last Sunday when we were notified about a great deal of rubbish in Highlands Road, one of the DPVwatch active patrollers stepped up and cleaned everything. Thanks, Pierre de Villiers, for your help, not once, but twice that week! In the pics, you can clearly see the rubbish, before and after it was bagged by Pierre.

01/07/2026

THANK YOU TO THE DPVWATCH MEMBERS WHO TAKE THE RADIO CHECKS

There is a group of DPVwatch volunteers who go unheralded and quietly about their business of ensuring the continuity and efficacy of the DPVwatch Radio Network.

Some of these people co-ordinate the twice daily checks, and some are stalwarts who can be relied on to be part of the network.

DPVwatch would like to thank and acknowledge the selfless contributions of the following people who lead the checks: Anthony Silber, Louisa Geary, Jo-Anne Friedlander, Nina Vass, Ulf and Inga Hitzeroth, Oliver Barnett, Frank Ruggerio, Detlef Pohl, Graeme Logie, Erica Brumage, Paul Vorwerk and Harriet Clift.

There are also some residents, part of the radio network, who check in regularly and DPVwatch acknowledges their contribution and thanks them too for their reliability and community spirit.

Christo Steyn and Devon Tangocci are thanked for being so willing to assist when one of the regulars is unable to do a radio check.

Jo-Anne Friedlander had this to say about her involvement with the radio network: “It is a much easier / faster way to share info or help with an incident - especially when communicating with external role players who might not be able to listen to / read messages on their phones.

It means that others get to know voices. In an emergency, the chances of a quick response are greater even if radio holder can't send a clear message, someone else will know a response is needed and will be able to work out where to go.”

Graeme Logie, another long-standing Radio Check Co-ordinator said, “ How I got involved is that I was a very active DPVwatch member patrolling at night and on foot and assisting on the committee by helping with a fund-raising event at the Barnyard theatre. Age has now caught up with me and I cannot patrol at night as I need to sleep 🙈. By doing radio checks you see if your radio is working. However, it appears not many new people are putting their hands up to help especially during the morning checks.”

If you would like to become involved in the DPVwatch radio network, please contact Werner Schulz, the DPVwatch Exco member for radios on [email protected]