Modise said on the day of elections, the SANDF members will be on standby to be deployed in support of the police and the IEC should the need arise.
“This plan will ensure that there is sufficient police visibility in and around the voting stations around the country to prevent crime or intimidation of voters and other role players.”Furthermore, police will be deployed at the provincial results centres to ensure the integrity of the finalisation of the results, she said.
“Over and above the physical deployments of SAPS officers at voting districts, reserve forces from the police are on standby to provide additional assistance should the need arise in and around the identified hotspot areas. To this end, security measures have been put in place to ensure the safety and security of voters, IEC officials, role players, equipment, resources, voting stations and the public,” she said.
“That is very specific because if you touch those, you start tampering with the image, sovereignty and the right of this country to stand up among other nations and that becomes our business,” she said. The security threat assessment was conducted in all voting districts and resulted in the categorisation of each voting station into high, medium and low risk and the police will deploy accordingly.said four provinces — KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape — were regarded as hotspots for violence ahead of the elections. He said there were pockets of trouble in provinces such as the North West, Free State, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
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