Highway Mountainside Neighbourhood Watch Fish Hoek.

Wireless IP video network.

Provincial CPF presentation 10 Sep. 2011

Fish Hoek has 3 entrance points

3 Access points feed this entire area. Currently only one entrance into Fish Hoek is monitored. All 3 Highway Mountainside N Watch entrances (within Fish Hoek) are however monitored.

Chapmans Peak entrance into Fish Hoek (not yet monitored)

Ou Kaapse Weg entrance into Fish Hoek (not yet monitored)

Kalk Bay Entrance (Wooley’s Pool) into Fish Hoek (monitored) 2 LPR cameras (in and out lanes)

Wireless Camera feed To Fire Station High Point

Wireless network configuration

Main Road Entrance From Kalk Bay Entrance 3

Fire Station Tower Fish Hoek

Control Room

Sunnycove Entrance Highway Mountainside Neighbourhood Watch.

Monitored.

Hillside Entrance Highway Mountainside Neighbourhood Watch.

Monitored.

Highway Entrance Highway Mountainside Neighbourhood Watch.

Monitored.

Picture shows mounted LPR camera to an electrical pole.

A stiff wire is fastened to the pole leading to the residence.

The power cable and LAN cable is then twisted around this wire from the residence to the camera. This is a cheap and effective way to avoid digging trenches and laying conduit .

The black unit under the camera is the Infra Red Illuminator

How Visec License Plate Recognition software “LPR” works?

Visec LPR (license plate recognition) with sms notification.

Typical Neighbourhood Watch setup Monitoring entrance and exit points.

Overview camera shows colour and direction of car.

Entering car plate captured by Visec Software Exiting car plate captured by Visec software LPR cameras capture car registration.

Car owner receives sms notification when car enters or exits N. Watch area

Typical night shot from LPR camera.

Infra Red Illuminator illuminates registration plate at night .

The history of every car is logged and the footage stored. This can be checked by typing in the registration of the vehicle.

Clicking on an entry automatically plays the footage of the recorded event.

Suspicious vehicles, or known criminals are flagged in three categories.

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Level 1 Confirmed criminals Level 2 Suspected criminals Level 3 Suspicious behaviour

A notification response team (resident volunteers) receive these sms notifications as soon as a flagged vehicle enters the area. They locate the vehicle and call SAPS .

Actual incident of car being stolen 01 March 2011.

Suspected car thieves enter area In a White twin cab bakkie.

LPR camera captures registration plate (damaged) of bakkie.

Stolen Kombi driving out of the area.

Driver of Kombi (thief) was suspected of being dropped off by Bakkie driver.

LPR camera captures plate on exit and Immediately sends Notification to resident.

Resident car owner immediately receives notification.

Actual time of triggered event from computer.

Actual time resident received alert (iPhone screen capture) To inform him his car was being stolen.

Notification received within 20 seconds.

The Kombi was recovered, 2 arrests were made.

The Bakkie involved in the incident was immediately flagged.

Should it enter the N. Watch area again the Notification Response Team will be alerted immediately by sms .

Networking with other N. Watches

A data base check reveals common criminals.

Fish Hoek has 3 points of entry by road.

One of these points is covered by Licence Plate Recognition cameras.

A response team receives notification by sms when a flagged vehicle enters.

On 17 March 2011 Somerset West N. Watch shared their suspicious/wanted/stolen vehicle list with Highway Mountainside (Fish Hoek)

Somerset West is approx. 40km from Fish Hoek

From the list of approx 350 registration plates 19 matches were found to have been logged as entered into F. Hoek.

10 Of these follow as examples.

The current setup that Highway Mountainside has allows for 1 month of video footage to be stored.

In these examples only one entry was recent enough to show video footage.

The lettering in

RED

is the copied entry from the S. West list.

Reasons that S. West flagged the vehicles (in these examples) include false plates, suspicious behaviour, scams, hijacked car, vehicle used as getaway from crime scene, person wanted for house break in, stolen car.

Highway Mountainside LEVEL 1 notification data entry.

Both N. Watches had flagged the car without the other knowing.

10 months after implementation…..

10 Months after Highway Mountainside N. Watch and the business community of Fish Hoek, CID’s (City Improvement District ) joined forces and installed Visec License Plate Recognition system with sms notification……..

32 LEVEL1 cars (confirmed criminals) were flagged and logged in the data base with case numbers from SAPS. 46 LEVEL2 cars (suspected criminals) were flagged and logged in the data base.

67 LEVEL3 cars (suspicious behavior) were flagged and logged in the data base.

As at 10 July 2011 41 sms alerts automatically sent to N Watch / SAPS were responded to (some of the flagged cars are seen here).

16 Incident Reports with recorded video footage and photos, were handed to SAPS, which assisted in investigation and/or prosecution (as at 10 July 2011).

8 December 2010 Motor vehicle theft Clovelly 29 December 2010 Newspaper delivery syndicate (car theft, garage break-in) exposed 14 January 2011 Parked motor vehicle “smash and grab’ Hillside Road 28 February 2011 Woman conning domestics accomplice identified (Hillside Road) 1 March 2011 Car theft Echo Road 4 March 2011 Jewellery store theft at Longbeach Mall 24 March 2011 Daylight house break-in, resident attacked 30 March 2011 Car theft Hillside Road 7 May 2011 Daylight flat break-in, residents attacked 9 May 2011 Bakkie stolen Hillside Road 13 May 2011 Petrol siphoning thieves Hillside Road 28 May 2011 daylight attempted theft of motor vehicle 2 June 2011 Motor vehicle theft Fish Hoek High School 3 June 2011 Notorious house breakers seen crow baring door, camera captures plate 22 June 2011 Notorious housebreakers return, trigger notification and get caught 04 July 2011 Daylight robbery Silverglades

Actual incident (Silver BMW responsible for crime spree in the Cape caught) 2) Visec software reads plate and sends sms alert 3) sms Alert is sent to team & SAPS 4) Team responds Gary Scagell Visec International founder & CEO responds to sms (actual clip) 1) Flagged criminals enter Fish Hoek 5) Criminals located and arrested by SAPS 7) Bail denied, Case pending as at 10 July 2011. Actual clip www.youtube.com

search “Silver BMW Visec”

Silver BMW used by criminals

Other incidents and how cars are flagged.

Residents bakkie was not in data base

A history check reveals entry only on day of crime.

Combined with the video footage and above log, car is the only suspect.

Evidence is handed to SAPS Bakkie is flagged LEVEL1.

Car entering Fish Hoek before crime

Now Flagged LEVEL1

Petrol Thieves in Highway Mountainside.

Reports of a suspicious green Mercedes.

Car identified by overview camera footage.

Number plate confirmed by reviewing LPR footage.

Visec Log shows multiple entries that night. 3 Residents cars had their fuel drained.

Suspect vehicle is now Flagged LEVEL2

House Break in…..only car unaccounted for when reviewing footage (2am) is registered in a suburb 40km’s away

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LPR camera used to identify plate

Very Little History (Visec log check).

Car now flagged LEVEL1.

Evidence handed to SAPS.

Clovelly House Break in.

Plate entered while crime in progress (reported by residents).

Driver left accomplices behind and fled.

Car crosses LPR camera on exit.

Control room and patrollers receive automatic sms notification on exit.

SAPS , N. Watches and security company’s all notified.

Vehicle apprehended by Mountain Men Security 10km’s out of Fish Hoek.

All are arrested .

Vehicle is impounded by SAPS

Building site thieves.

Description of van received after he dropped off thieves

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Registration confirmed on LPR cameras (as well as exit time).

Patrollers search for car in Fish Hoek, while SAPS called to arrest thieves on building site.

Suspects held for SAPS to arrest.

Search continued for driver.

Car is found in Fish Hoek by volunteer radio holders.

Registration plate is confirmed.

Suspect who was armed was arrested

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Random check on Facebook site .

Story of Hout Bay resident who had a fraudulent payment made for his laptop.

Photographed car of fraudster as it left his residence (got a hunch he was conned).

A friend of his posted the number plate of conman and case number.

The details were entered into Highway Mountainsides system (flagged LEVEL1).

3 Months later the conman entered Fish Hoek, triggered an alert and was arrested.

Plate triggers sms alert to patrollers and SAPS Patrollers locate car for SAPS To make the arrest

2 Incidents where Visec LPR was used for Community (not crime related)

Elderly lady not home by nightfall after drive to library.

Concerned relatives ask N Watch to assist.

Patrollers start to scour Fish Hoek valley.

A number plate of the car is radioed to patrollers.

Control room checks the Visec history log.

No results are shown for the plate given.

The information given by relatives appears to be incorrect.

Visec allows you to do a wild card search *____* in case some numbers are incorrect.

Similar plate with one digit different is found.

A click on a daylight entry could reveal if this is the one patrollers are searching for.

Control room confirms identity and radios that car exited Fish Hoek in the afternoon

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Relieved relatives locate elderly lady at a friends house 20km’s away. All patrollers stand down

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Missing Person National appeal.

Last seen in Green Jetta DJY086GP Details entered into system.

Unfortunately car did not come into Fish Hoek .

Young man was found in car after committing suicide.

If the lighting is good it is possible to identify drivers in their cars as they cross the LPR cameras.

This is useful for SAPS and can lead to prosecution

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Thief captured on video driving stolen car out of Fish Hoek.

Picture clear enough to identify driver

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Driver identified in car that committed a crime in Fish Hoek that same day.

10 Months after implementation Maintenance cost……..R0.00

Total cost to run system for 10 months……R100 estimated electricity cost, an ADSL line and the cost of the sms’s. There are no other costs.

Number of people required to monitor …….0 (system is automatic and proactive) It is recording data and searching for flagged vehicles 24/7.

250 (out of 500) Residents in Highway Mountainside N. Watch contributed just under R1000 each for the project. (once off) Unhappy residents …………0 Reliability ……proven.

Crime reduction after implementation …….proven.