Organised syndicates target deserted Pitsane
Correspondent | Friday July 11, 2014 15:23
In an interview, Ramatlabama Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Detective Superintendent, Moses Temogo said a growing middle class in Pitsane West had become the target of organised syndicates.
“This issue is a headache to us now,” he said.
“Every time, we are attending break-ins where you find that the owners don’t stay in the house. “A house is just built, furnished with valuable furnishing and the thieves attack.”
He added that in most cases, it is the owners who discover that their houses have been broken into, up to a month after the initial incident.
“Thieves get away with valuables such as fridges, plasma screens, radios and the whole house is ransacked because the criminals have ample time to take things,” he said.
“At some points a truck just reverses and loads everything in the house.
“In instances like that, it appears the neighbours don’t even care.
“They see the truck loading, but because they are not friends or unfamiliar with their neighbours, they think they are moving houses or simply moving their things either during daylight or at night.”
People living in the blossoming area, according to Temogo, are mostly from out of Pitsane and thus generally do not know each other as neighbours.