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2012-12-10 10:27<\/span><\/p>\n

Johannesburg – Crime-weary residents of the Durban suburb of Wentworth have come up with a novel way to pass on information about drug dealers to local police – by putting their anonymous tip-offs in their church collection plate, it was reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

“You can go nowhere in Wentworth without coming across drug trafficking and addiction,” Reverend Cierigh Samaai, of the Inter-church Social Action Alliance Campaign, told Beeld<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Churches and the umbrella body Communities Building Credible Ownership initiated the tip-off system in co-operation with Colonel Deon Singh, the new commander of the Wentworth police station.<\/p>\n

According to Samaai, a standard issue form for tip-offs to the police had been developed and could be placed inside an envelope identical to the one used by parishioners to place money in the collection plate.<\/p>\n

Any information collected was then handed to the police.<\/p>\n

“The drug problem in Wentworth is so severe that people are arriving from as far away as Newcastle to buy drugs,” Samaai said.<\/p>\n

Drug dealers were thought to have gained a foothold in the working class area’s residential flats.<\/p>\n

“The dealers pay people’s rent and school fees in exchange for the use of the flat for drug storage or to sell drugs from,” the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

– SAPA<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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