TMPD senior superintendent Isaac Mahamba said that the department was planning future operations to arrest beggars who regulate traffic as they were “impersonating traffic officers” and presented a danger to themselves and motorists.
Mahamba said that the Road Traffic Act of 1996 stated that only a peace officer in full uniform and with training was allowed to regulate traffic.
“We urge beggars to refrain from entering into those intersections because they are not trained to regulate traffic, or they will face the law.”The AA has highlighted that the government-appointed Traffic Law Enforcement Review Committee’s 2019 report found that South Africa needed twice the number of traffic officials it had.
“[The] focus is not only on load-shedding. We have a duty to perform other functions as stipulated by law, and [it] is the role of other law enforcement urgencies to assist TMPD where we are unable to deploy,” said Mahamba.
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