2019 ELECTIONS: Tony Leon joins DA call for local control of policing By Lelethu Tonisi
The DA believes in an “honest and professional policing service”, said Ekurhuleni councillor Mathew Cuthbert.
, who allegedly sanctioned the reappointment of a police officer involved in numerous crimes, from armed robbery in Mamelodi township in 1994 to a cash-in-transit heist in Sasolburg in 2013 and an arrest in January 2018 in connection with looting more than R500,000 from the Crime Intelligence Unit’s secret slush fund.
Leon said that at the micro level there was a need for more effective policing in communities. There was “a great desire to get local police who seem to be more effective than national police”.
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