Policing the Police:
Eblockwatch’s interlinked community-safety approach by cellphone
The very first cell-phone security-based company in South Africa was launched a decade ago by Andre Snyman. He called it eblockwatch.co.za. This network has spread into all fields of security-endeavours: they even keep an eye on the country’s few remaining protected rhinos to make certain they don’t get poached (more than 460 rhinos were poached in SA last year alone). A more ominous development – indicating the rapid rate at which the SA policing services are criminalising, is his ‘Policing the Police’ cellphone security programme.
Pics: Many SA whites such as Shawn van Heerden (left) of Lyttleton on Feb 18 2011, now fall victim to increasingly criminal cops. In his case his fiancee Nickie Bonthuys was arrested during an illegal raid at a bistro and taken to Lyttleton police station. http://www.farmitracker.com/reports/view/1075. There also are many incidents reported of large gaggles of cops, helmeted and with highpowered R14 attack-carbines, storming into night-spots and restaurants frequented by whites to terrorise, rob and sexually assault the women. Many white women such as Martie Olivier (right) also are pulled over by policing-officials and raped. She and her husband Sarel were subjected to this abuse by two Kempton Park cops who arrested him on a trumped-up charge, and raped Martie in the back of their family car while her husband was being taken to the police station.
http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/COPS-HT-VERKRAG
Andre’s advice to members:
“Ïf you are pulled over by the police please dial this number, the conversation between you and the police is recorded and saved on our server. We ask that you try to provide as much detail as possible during the conversation:
• Describe the police car (make, model, colour, the number painted on the side of the car along with the registration number)
• Ask the police person for their name and badge number
• Mention the number of police officers
• Make it clear to the officer that you have just made a call to your friend to tell them where you are etc
• Describe your location and surroundings
“Try to let the phone remain in a position where the conversation can be recorded. When you hang up, a link to the voice recording is sent in an email to your four support members. An additional benefit for our members with the panic button service is that we immediately send an sms notification to them to check their email for your voice recording.
“A note about the length of the call: as many people have been testing the service by simply dialling in and then hanging up we have set the system to only send out the email with the link to the recording if the call was longer than 5 seconds. This is to cut down on false alarm situations.
“The purpose of this service is:
• “To have evidence of the bogus cop or cop abusing their power
• “To have your four support members get the details of your situation via the recording
• “The mere fact that the police officer is aware of being recorded will encourage the correct behaviour …
• Listen to this example recorded by an Eblockwatch member here
• Listen to the Talk Radio 702 interview with Andre Snyman, 14 September 2010
