Policing bolstered in identified high crime areas in three provinces ahead of festive season

As the country winds down towards the holiday season, the South African Police Service (SAPS) is ramping up its efforts to improve service delivery to communities, through the injection of additional policing resources.

This as the SAPS in the Western Cape on Tuesday, 15 November 2022, launched its Safer Festive Season campaign in Mitchell’s Plain in the Cape Flats.

Policing in the Cape flats and other communities experiencing high cases of violent crimes such as murder, assault, robbery and gender based violence and femicide (GBVF) have received a life line. Additional patrol vehicles have been deployed to policing areas in and around the Cape flats of Cape Town.

On Monday 14 November 2022, during a Ministerial Crime Prevention Imbizo scores of new police patrol vans and high powered vehicles were also added to the existing vehicle fleet in order to better service the communities of Johannesburg South and surrounds.

Mobile community service centres (CSC) which is the…


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