Wednesday Incidents Updated

City Golf CA811712 stolen during the night from Edward Rd

04h51 # Peterhof, Hughenden, attempted break-in. Excellent response from SSP’s, no one found or seen.

09h30 Details reported below may be inaccurate. Whittlers Way ammended to Hughenden Rd.

Sometime before 09h30 this morning a lady motorist was proceeding along Hughenden Rd close to the bottom gate, when she came across rocks in the road. It seems she may have exited the vehicle to remove the rocks and was attacked by 3 Bravo males sustaining knife wounds while defending herself. She managed to drive herself to the HB police station. The motive for the attack is unknown but may have been an attempted hijacking/ robbery. The criminals walked back into IY. SAPS asked for medical assistance and an immediate response from “Aquaman and BeachMandy” was refused! The actual incident was never reported on the HBNW net at the time (i.e. no warning fom SAPS regarding the incident)

Comment from Bokke-Justin: Having heard this incident live on the radio this morning I was appalled that an immediate offer of primary first aid from "Aquaman" was ignored, in favour of a metro Ambulance etc. I have since discovered that watchcon is instructed not to accept offers of medical assistance from anyone certain named service providers. There may well be issues around liability and accrediation etc - but in this case someone could easily have DIED for lack of primary first aid. It is quite outrageous. We MUST accept first available suitable help - until secondary or more qualified parties can respond. Is this not the WHOLE POINT of first aid? I personally did a St John's First Aid course myself last year and this is exactly what I understood first aid to be. Does this mean that first aiders are not accepted to assist with NW calls? What about other types of assistance? Am I to decline the offer of my jumper leads to somone because we should call the AA rather. If there are protocol issues to resolve then just do it. Don't let someone die in the meantime

Comment from Chris: Don't have any more info on my side. Spoke to a resident who said she had noticed the rocks in the road somewhere around 9 but simply drove around them. I'm hoping that any of the Meadows residents that have info have already gone to the cops. I will put out appeal, again, via the hughenden-meadows group mail system now. Will let you know if anything comes to light.
Unbelievable incident... Whittlers is pretty busy in the morning - as the only exit road for about 130 households!

Comment from Neil: Whoever issued the instruction to Watchcon to ignore first aid offered by Aquaman or Beach Mandy owes the community an explanation. Having being stabbed myself in April last year this brings up a HUGE charge for me. This will certainly make me reconsider my contributions to Community efforts

Anonymous: We must find out who gave the instruction not to use Aquaman. Something is suspicious in that decision

More Anonymous: Having completed a first aid course myself, it is my understanding that the person who is in need of care can decline or accept the offer of assistance based on their wishes. A first aider who approaches a person requiring care can explain their level of qualification and request permission to assist. Basically despite the above allegations the choice is still that of the "victims"

From Aquaman and BeachMandy: Unfortunately egos and personal issues have lead to the current situation - certain people have chosen to use legality and liability to try and stop us from what we are doing. I personally take on the liability whenever I help someone - to me it is worth the risk! As the comment from "anonymous" says, anyone can refuse help - this also applies to the entire medical fraternity not only a first-aider. In the past 9 months we have been able to respond to countless incidents and generally get there first - do what we can and hand over once the ambulance service arrives - we have records where this has taken 1.5 hours. In terms of qualifications Mandy has a 3 year degree in Nursing and worked in the neo-natal intensive care unit in Germany - this is a lot more than the short courses you do to become a basic ambulance assistant. I am not as qualified, but do have a level 3 in basic emergency care and have a pretty good idea what I'm doing and where my limitations are.In life threating situations it is normally the first 5 - 10 min that will determine the outcome - in the past 9 months I have performed CPR on 3 people.No Heart beat + no breathing = DEAD. We have been forced to sort out some administrative issues, which are almost complete, then I can assure the community of Hout Bay that SURF RESCUE 1 will be back on air and ready to help wherever we can 24/7


07h31ADT. Break in at the International School, Riverside Terrace. Computer store burgled? Suspects not seen. SAPS and ADT attend.

09h00 Break in between 0h00 and 09h00 reported at #### Main Rd Disa / Overkloof area.

15h28 Break-in at # Blackwood, Overkloof. 3 Bravo thieves climbed the gate and broke off the actuating arm, taking off when disturbed, in an unknown vehicle / direction.

18h10 Break-in at ## Gordon Rd. SAPS and SSP’s respond. Resident moved out a few days ago and skelms steal everything including skirtings and HW cylinder.

23h02 Attempted break-in at ## Nooitgedacht. ADT and SAPS respond, nothing found.