Safety
Friends of Tokai Park's three-pronged approach to safety needed for Tokai Park
[T]he state of being "safe", the condition of being protected from harm or other non-desirable outcomes. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk.
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Three primary threats to personal safety exist at Tokai Park:
- fire
- trees, and
- crime
While it may seem counter intuitive, these are ranked in descending order in terms of their potential to inflict large-scale damage to life and/or property.
The ignition of uncontrolled wildfire may derive from criminal intent, negligence (criminal or otherwise) or natural ignition, but its potential to take on a life of its own and inflict damage to life and property beyond the borders of Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) is immense.
The threat of fire is also tied to our second-largest threat to safety, the remnants of MTO (Mountains to Oceans) Forestry’s pine plantation bordering the Dennendal neighbourhood. Trees have already claimed the lives of two at Tokai Park.
Crimes against people or property are our third threat. Today, technology makes information sharing by all community-based, private or public-sector organisations virtually instantaneous across media platforms and we monitor, verify and share such information on the turn.
We welcome the TMNP-based joint operations centre or security centre announced in March by Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy and we support all accredited crime-fighting bodies striving to ensure that Tokai Park becomes as much a crime-free zone as it is possible to create.
