On Monday, community safety MEC Albert Fritz said the new Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (Leap) officers would be ready for deployment in some of the crime hotspots in the Cape Flats by mid-December, in time for the festive season.
On Monday, community safety MEC Albert Fritz said the new Law Enforcement Advancement Plan officers would be ready for deployment in some of the crime hotspots in the Cape Flats by mid-December, in time for the festive season.
Fritz said the new officers would increase visible policing in the identified crime hotspots in Cape Town. The officers are being deployed as part of the Western Cape safety plan which was launched late in 2019, when the province and Cape Town were dealing with a murder epidemic.Premier Alan Winde has previously said the province would spend R1bn a year in a bid to halve the province’s murder rate in a decade.
“Over seven days we are searching more than 1,000 suspicious people in our crime hotspots every day and are searching more than 100 vehicles every day,” Fritz said. “It is only fitting that as we approach the second anniversary of this launch we have begun training the third cohort of Leap officers, to be deployed in our crime hotspots by the end of the year. I commend the city and provincial government on their joint partnership, which has made the Leap programme possible, and which has made our most vulnerable communities feel safer,” he said.
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