Johannesburg – Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko has made some lofty promises about how his department will be combating crime, but failed to provide any concrete plans.
He was speaking in one of his first major media appearances since his appointment.
On Tuesday, Nhleko met top police management officials from across Gauteng to determine the major problems officers in the province faced daily.
After a morning of interacting with the heads of dozens of police stations and departments within the SAPS, reporters hoped for a staunch “state of the province-esque” reportback on how he would improve on his predecessor’s work.
But, rather than addressing the major crime problems in the province, Nhleko opened the floor to about a dozen questions from journalists before the conference came to an end.
Asked about the spate of child-related crimes in Gauteng, Nhleko said he would know only after the crime statistics were released next month whether there had been a significant increase in such incidents.
Contact crimes against vulnerable groups such as women, children and the elderly were “extremely worrying”, he said…
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