Inoperational CCTV cameras in Pretoria's CBD aid criminals pretorianews
Pretoria - At least 102 CCTV cameras used to monitor criminal activities in the Pretoria CBD have not been working since 2016, hampering the police fight against crime. This emerged during a community meeting at Salvokop, hosted by the acting commander of the Pretoria Central police station, Colonel Moses Dladla.
“The CCTV cameras are very important. When I was a ward councillor, we had cameras and they assisted a lot in terms of crime prevention.Although he didn’t want to put a specific time frame for solving the problem, he said the City anticipated to solve it in the next six months. During the meeting, the police officers at Pretoria Central got a bad rap from community members who accused them of colluding with drug dealers, taking bribes and making dockets disappear.“Pretoria Central is very corrupt. The members are very corrupt. All over where we are going we are sitting with problems wherethey receive bribes,” he said.
He said he previously reported four cases and the police investigations into them came to nought “because the information disappeared”.Pretorial Central CPF secretary Mzwandile Felita claimed that police always hung around spots where criminals sold drugs.
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