The South African Police Service (SAPS) has expanded its operations in Cape Town by launching two new police stations in vulnerable communities.
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‘We welcome the handing over of the Makhaza Police Station and the sod-turning for the Tafelsig Police Station,’ says Alderman JP Smith, the City’s Mayco member for safety and security.
The City sold the Makhaza site to the Department of Public Works in 2018 and the Tafelsig site in 2014. More recently, the City sold the site for the new Belhar police station at a discounted rate, approved the lease of a portion of its Nyanga depot building in New Eisleben in Nyanga and is working with SAPS on a Browns Farm satellite police station with another facility to follow in Mfuleni.
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‘We extend our appreciation to SAPS for their efforts in bringing these projects to fruition in areas where new police stations were urgently needed and where the City has added its voice along with those of local communities for more resources,’ Smith adds.
‘As we look forward to the expansion of more SAPS facilities and resources, we reaffirm our resolve to continue working hand in hand with SAPS and other stakeholders to create safer, more resilient communities for all through sharing our policing resources and technologies from the City, and continued collaboration with SAPS on the ground.’
In a statement, Smith also called on the national minister of police, Bheki Cele, to continue investment in SAPS resources across Cape Town by ‘modernising SAPS through computer-aided dispatch and other technological advancements within the policing sector and by boosting the number of police officers and detectives at police stations’.
‘We cannot push back against gangs, extortion, and construction mafias with more boots on the ground alone,’ he added, noting that ‘we need to start making meaningful arrests that lead to convictions.’
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