Security company and medics empower domestics in Pinehaven

Domestic workers have on many occasions unwittingly become involved in numerous house robberies, because their employers have failed to provide them with information and education about crime patterns.

However, BCI Security is curbing the scourge, one suburb at a time. The latest suburb in which they presented their anti-crime workshop was Pinehaven, which they visited on 21 July, in partnership with ER24 and Lifestyle Brokers.

They held the programme, focusing on security and medical awareness, for the domestic workers and gardeners working at the Pinehaven Country Estate.

Part of the programme included stressing to the workers the need to be wary of fake contractors approaching the residence where they work. They were also taught how to use panic buttons; given a list of important emergency numbers, and addressed by ER24 on what to do when children are choking, suffocating, burnt or have sustained a cut.

They also watched a demonstration by BCI Security’s K9 unit, showing them how they pounce on criminals who attack domestic workers when they are alone on the property and how the unit’s dogs detect illegal narcotics.

After the event, the domestics and gardeners were presented with certificates of attendance and aprons displaying BCI’s emergency numbers.