SAPS launch new campaign to combat crime
SAPS launch new campaign to combat crime in South Africa
By Brent Lindeque
The Minister of Police has just launched a new campaign with “intensified Policing in response to fighting crime in South Africa”.
During the recent past, South Africa has been plagued with serious and violent crimes, particularly aggravated robberies which has instilled fear in our innocent, vulnerable and law-abiding citizens of our country.
On this backdrop the National Commissioner of Police has directed the SAPS Top Management to adopt and extraordinary operational approach to stabilize this crime wave which must be followed by a normalization approach.
Therefore, in their efforts to stamping the authority of the State, the SAPS will be introducing the execution of a high density stabilization intervention going forward.
“This will entail the migration of resources from a strategic framework level to an operational framework level. This means that in provinces such as Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape, which provinces are most affected by this crime wave, we will be boosted by the deployment Lieutenant Generals. We will also be mobilizing all Police Act (functional) members that are ordinarily tasked with administration duties to augment the visibility of police officers, particularly in identified hotspot areas in all provinces.
Our intention is to combat crimes, among others, cash-in-transit heists, car hi-jacking, murders, house robberies, gang violence and related crimes, taxi violence and related crimes.”
The SAPS will also be dedicating teams to track and arrest wanted suspects as part of our Organised Crime Threat Analysis (OCTA) approach.