<p> Displaced People Unit Displaced People Unit Displaced People Unit Kuilsriver Kuilsriver Kuilsriver Ask For: Wayne Aldridge Cela: Wayne Aldridge Vra vir: Wayne Aldridge Tel: 0825279813 Umnxeba: 0825279813 Tel: 021 0825279813</p><p>E-mail: [email protected]</p><p>Ref: Filename:</p><p>SAFETY & SECURITY –LAW ENFORCEMENT-SPECIALISED SERVICE-DISPLACED PEOPLE UNIT</p><p>DATE: September 13, 2012 TO: Councillor: Theresa Uys</p><p>RE: Definition: Hotspot </p><p>The definition below is of what the Displaced People Unit: Law Enforcement defines as a hot spot when dealing with street people.</p><p>Any street people/vagrancy, complaint which is received continuously and is causing a safety hazard, nuisance, health hazard, harassment, unlawful occupation of buildings and land or social needs to the immediate area of such complaint.</p><p>Safety hazard: * Making of fires along and under bridges, in open fields and in buildings * The criminal acts that are carried out by some of these street people/vagrants which may lead to injury of people and property? *The contravention of city By-Laws and Laws *The safety risk to the street people who occupy the highways and freeways and to the motorists using these highways and freeways</p><p>Nuisance: * Those street people/ vagrants who continue to scream and shout, use abusive Language, fight, perform anti-social behaviour all hours of the day and night as per the By-Law: BY-LAW RELATING TO STREETS, PUBLIC PLACES AND THE PREVENTION OF NUISANCES</p><p>Health hazard: * Those street people/vagrants who urinate and defecate in public *The storage and accumulation of items used for recycling which is dumped in public open spaces, parks, buildings, in the roadway and on sides walks </p><p>Harassment: * Those street people/vagrants who engage in aggressive begging *The car guards who harass patrons for money (The informal car guards who comes into an area on a daily basis from a community is NOT included in this definition)</p><p>Unlawful occupation of buildings and land: *Any city owned building or property which is unlawful occupied. </p><p>Any person who erects, attempts to erect any form of </p><p>Structure for the purpose of unlawfully occupying it as a home or temporary shelter</p><p>Social needs: *Any street person/ vagrants who indicate they are in need of social intervention. (These cases are handed over to Social Development) . DPU will monitor the situation should these people refuse the social intervention offered to them? The complaint then will be handled under one of the other headings above</p><p>This hotspot definition applies to city property only as DPU: Law enforcement has no jurisdiction on private owned land</p><p>Wayne Aldridge Principal Inspector Displaced People Unit SPECIALISED SERVICE LAW ENFORCEMENT</p>