A quick review of Daily Maverick’s coverage of Gauteng’s Crime Prevention Wardens reveals that most of the accusations and claims made against them are overstated, political, contrived and speculative.
articles attacking the Gauteng Crime Prevention Wardens serve as a timely reminder that in South Africa, mediocrity permeates all aspects of life, and that agenda-driven, biased media coverage not only poisons public discourse but also has the potential to harm community relations.
There is a distinction between examining a public institution critically by bringing up issues and exposing mistakes to hold it accountable and restore confidence, and cynically inciting public panic by relentlessly publishing one-sided attacks to discredit it. The fight against crime has been undermined by a diminishing SAPS headcount and dwindling resources because of the country’s economic situation. This has seen the police-to-citizen ratio of Gauteng dropping to one officer for every 546 citizens.
The training the wardens receive from the abovementioned enforcement agencies includes various modules, including foot patrol, stop and tactical approach, approach and searches, evidence collection, docket completion, statement taking, scrap yard compliance, anti-land invasion, and critical infrastructure policing. This is the same training given to the province’s Metro Police units.
Since the beginning of September alone, they have notched up some notable successes. On 1 September 2023, the CPWs, together with law enforcement agencies, conducted crime prevention duties at Dawn Park, Ekurhuleni, which included a roadblock that resulted in fines to the value of about R19,000 issued for contravention of the Road Traffic Act.
A male suspect was arrested, detained at the Elsburg police station, and appeared in the Germiston Magistrates’ Court on 4 September 2023 after being charged with unlawful possession of suspected stolen copper cables and contravention of the Second-Hand Goods Act 6 of 2009.On the weekend of 9 September, the wardens and SAPS officers also found explosives in the Johannesburg and Springs CBDs and detained four individuals.
The unjustified demonisation of CPWs has the potential to… feed the deadly anti-police mentality we acquired from apartheid.
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