The Western Cape‘s crime-fighting efforts received a boost when 250 law-enforcement officers were recruited for the province’s most dangerous neighbourhoods.
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. He said 3,000 law-enforcement officers would be trained to plug the policing gap caused by the understaffing and underfunding of the SA Police Service.
Fritz said last week that the Leap officers had conducted 7,078 person searches, 345 house searches, and 879 vehicle searches in the hotspots. The officers also conducted 104 autonomous operations, and 100 joint operations with the SAPS. The operations led to the confiscation of 60 full Mandrax tablets and 76 half-tablets; 66 packets and 14 parcels of dagga; 96 packets of tik; 96 units and 18 straws of heroin, and other narcotics. Confiscated dangerous weapons included a panga and two swords, as wells as knives, illegal guns and ammunition.
“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. “During the presentation of the latest quarterly crime statistics a few weeks ago, the national commissioner [Lt-Gen Khehla Sitole] spoke about the importance of visible policing in fighting crime. And that is exactly what our Leap officers are doing. Their work rate is really impressive. And with 250 more officers, the work rate will only increase and intensify.”
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