As infrastructure is stripped and sold to corruptible scrapyards, metal theft costs the City of Cape Town millions of rand. To combat the scourge, a highly trained dog with a particular skill for sniffing out copper has been deployed.
, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, claimed that Cape Town lost around R2.5 million to metal theft in the fourth quarter of 2022.
According to Smith, the national government’s six-month ban on the export of copper and copper alloy scrap, announced in November, has done little to halt infrastructure destruction. “Jackson is quite unique. When I first had Jackson and his predecessors introduced him to me, I was very cynical about the idea that a dog could smell copper,” Alderman Smith toldA week earlier, thieves attempted to conceal a stolen metal rail in the area but were caught on CCTV footage.
Cape Town police are looking to add more copper-sniffing dogs to their K9 Unit, with Smith confirming that training capabilities had recently been brought in-house and that the kennels in Parow would be upgraded.
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