Interview: Vumacam CEO Ricky Croock

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Interview: Vumacam CEO Ricky Croock

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Crime has accelerated dramatically since the end of level 4 of the national lockdown and is now easily as bad as it was before South Africa entered the lockdown in late March.

That’s according to Ricky Croock, CEO of Vumacam, the company building a CCTV network across Johannesburg, who was speaking on the TechCentral podcast on Tuesday.

Croock discusses the impact of the lockdown on crime levels — they fell so much that not a single incident occurred across Vumacam’s footprint for a period of weeks when South Africa first entered lockdown.

However, Croock said there are important lessons to be learnt from the lockdown to try to tackle the scourge of crime in future.

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