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Remote jamming on the rise >> Motorists need to be aware of their surroundings KALISHA NAICKER
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ILLCREST police said they have been inundated with reports of remote jamming incidents in and around the area. According to Hillcrest CPF public relations officer Steven King, the latest incident occurred last week when a motorist had his valuables stolen outside Builders Way Centre in Hillcrest. “Unknown men opened the car and stole the laptop and other valuables. The men are still at large,” he said. King said that the community needs to be more wary of remote jammingandmust understandwhatitreally is. “Remote jamming is the process of interfering with this frequency so that the signal doesn’t get through. What this means is, that despite properly
pressing the button on your remote, giving the ‘order’ to lock the car, the signal never reaches the vehicle and the car does not lock because someone else is actively jamming the signal,” he said. “However, to make matters worse, there are ‘professional’ jamming devices available that function on a range of frequencies and that have much higher signal power. These devices can influence a vehicle’s remote control from a much greater distance and can even interfere with remote controls that use different frequencies and technologies.” Kingsaidthatthismodusoperandi is by no means a new phenomenon and is not limited to shopping centres and occurs wherever a person may park their car. “Shopping centre management across KZN are doing everything in their power to stop this scourge and
have asked the public to be aware. Some of the centres have remote jamming detection which can either be monitored by the centre management or security officers,” King said. “Analarmwillsoundinformingsecurity of the threat of remote jamming. Some of the centres include Kloof Village Mall, Hillcrest Corner, Link Hills Shopping Centre and also the new Watercrest centre.” It should be pointed out that remote control and jamming devices cannot unlock a vehicle. They can only stop a remote control from working properly. What do the insurance companies say about remote jamming? Many victims of this tactic have found that their car insurance theft policy does not cover remote jamming incidents.
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Support for SPCA’s clinic KLOOF and Highway SPCA offers a bit thank you to the staff at Hillcrest and Kloof Wakefields for their generous donation of three bales of blankets, 225 blankets in total, for its outreach sterilisation clinics which will be held this year. The funds were collected amongst the staff members from both branches for the blankets.
SPCA’s outreach officer Lisa Gadd said, “We are so grateful for this wonderful donation. At each outreach clinic, every animal goes home with a blanket, to keep it warm and comfortable, and some food,” she added. For more information, contact Lisa Gadd on 031 764 1212 or email onpr@kloofspca.co.za.
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Staff of Wakefields handing over the blankets to SPCA’s Barbara Pat rick.