Several EMPD precincts in the city do not have sufficient vehicles and this undermines the response times of police officers and weakens their efforts to combat and fight crime effectively. City_Ekurhuleni
Several EMPD precincts in the city do not have sufficient vehicles and this undermines the response times of police officers and weakens their efforts to combat and fight crime effectively.
These circumstances left many officers without response vehicles when crime is on the rise, especially with the ongoing vandalism of infrastructure across the city. “We are expected to attend to all the complaints we receive, yet we don’t have vehicles to use. We can’t walk to the“Lately, there has been a lot of bashing about not being visible enough and not always available to control traffic. I think we have enough personnel for strategic deployment to the traffic hotspots, but no vehicles are available. We need vehicles to travel to these different spots.”
In 2021, the Advertiser reported that the Boksburg precinct, in particular, faced a tremendous vehicle shortage, while their grounded vehicles were either unroadworthy or in garages awaiting attention or payments for the contractors.ACDP councillor Tambo Mokoena said the shortage had hampered efforts to fight crime and called on the metro to address the problems.
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