the Gillitts Park Streetwatch, this organisation is composed of residents who have contracted a service provider to provide cellphone communications links between members. By watching out for each other and working with local law enforcement, the 860-home neighbourhood saw nine arrests of housebreakers in four weeks. The crime rate has since dropped off. Gillitts Park Gillitts Park is a small residential suburb of Durban, South Africa. Comprising the northern half of the suburb of Gillitts, Gillitts Park is a green belt residential area with almost no commercial development and no industrial development. In its entirety, Gillitts Park consists of about 900 homes in freehold, residential sites with a minimum plot size of . There are also about 200 cluster developmentunits scattered through the neighbourhood, the most prominent being Augusta Golf Estate. Situated about inland from Durban and at an altitude of above sea level, Gillitts Park experiences a warm year-round climate, with no frost or snow in winter and drastically reduced humidity when compared with the coastal suburbs. Commercial development is limited to home-offices, a small, single-storey office building and the Emberton Mashie Golf Course, 9-hole course as well as a driving range and coffee shop. Having experienced an upsurge in residential housebreakings during the first half of 2009, residents banded together to form the Gillitts Park Streetwatch. This organisation is a 'Neighbourhood Watch'-type structure, with the additional function of re-creating a sense of community and maintaining the beautiful environment of the area. References Sources The Highway Mail, 1 June 2011. The Hilltop, 2 June 2011. Independent Electoral Commission (South Africa), 9 June 2011. Suburbs of Durban