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Table Mountain National Park

Table Mountain National Park. Visitor Safety Program Briefing to MEC Albert Fritz February 2011. A Park within a City. Proximity to City Mostly open access 24 hour risk Tourist destination 3.7 million visits Tourist gadgets. Resources 1: Physical Presence.

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Table Mountain National Park

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  1. Table Mountain National Park Visitor Safety Program Briefing to MEC Albert Fritz February 2011

  2. A Park within a City • Proximity to City • Mostly open access • 24 hour risk • Tourist destination • 3.7 million visits • Tourist gadgets

  3. Resources 1: Physical Presence • Table Mountain (north) = 36 rangers • Silvermine (central) = 24 rangers • Cape of Good Hope (south) = 46 rangers • Marine Protected Area = 16 rangers • EPWP / DEAT projects = 150 pax • Honorary Rangers • TOTAL = 272 pax

  4. Resources 2: Vehicles • 3 of 4x4 bakkies • 1 of Quantum Bus for deployment • 1 of Dog Trailer • 1 of Road block trailer • 2 of Quad bikes • 1 of Off road bike

  5. Resources 3: Equipment • 3 x CCTV cameras linked to City SSU • 1 x mobile surveillance camera unit • Digital 2 way radios – City Call Center • Night scopes, telescopes, cameras • Personal protective equipment • Pepper ball guns

  6. Resources 4: Dog Unit • 5 Dogs fully trained to DH4 • Dog Handlers trained to DH4 • Kennel Unit at Kloofnek • Deployment trailer • Current extension to kennels • HIGHLY EFFECTIVE

  7. Resources 5: Ops Centers • Kloofnek office / dispatch / coordination • Kloofnek Visitor Center – engage with Visitors re Safety Information • Signal Hill, Lion’s Head, Platteklip, Deer Park, Newlands, Noordhoek Beach

  8. Partnerships • SAPS is our major partner • TMNP overlaps with 13 SAPS precincts • Attend regular meetings and share info • Close coms with SAPS sector policing • Neighbourhood Watches • CID’s • Tourism Agencies – Safety Info to Tourists

  9. Operations: Combating Crime • Visible Uniformed Policing • Observation points / Stake-outs • Routinely clear bunkers, caves, hide-outs • Remove suspects for finger-print tests • CCTV cameras and response • Parallel investigations to SAPS • Adaptive strategy – trends/displacement

  10. Cost of Visitor Safety Program

  11. WHERE TO? • New partnerships – Waterfront Rotarians are sponsoring Kennel expansion • Tourism Partnerships renewed – to communicate safety information • Perception Management – balanced coms of risks, successes and interventions • Manned Visitor Information Centers

  12. Thank you !

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