Winde said he planned to 'bolster our own safety services', with the province's safety plan focussing on increasing boots on the ground and reducing violence.
Police forcibly remove refugees from the premises of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , November 15, 2019. File image for illustration.
“The police’s own stats prove this,” he said during his State of the Province Address in Mitchells Plain. Winde said the province’s safety plan focused on increasing boots on the ground and reducing violence. In the last year, 500 out of 3 000 new law enforcement officers have been deployed to the most crime-ridden neighbourhoods in partnership with the City of Cape Town, he added.
Its first meeting was held on Wednesday and was attended by officials from the City, police, correctional services and justice department. “We have also heard you when you’ve told us that sitting in traffic is affecting your ability to access opportunities, and in some cases, even impacting your job security. That is why, as mentioned, one of our three war room teams is interrogating our congestion pinch points, and I hope to receive their feedback on implementable solutions in the near-term. We will make these a budget priority.”
“Over the past few years, the decline of our train system has picked up pace, with increased arson attacks stripping the service down to its bare bones.
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