eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda said there are concerns about the rise in crime in the metro which accounts for nearly half of the criminal incidents in the province.
eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda said the metro is not immune to crime due to the high population in the city centre.Efforts are under way to curb rampant crime in the eThekwini metro to ensure the safety of residents and businesses, mayor Mxolisi Kaunda says.
He said measures to curb this include heightened police visibility in the city centre and the recruitment of 200 additional metro police. The mayor said the city employs 200 new police officers annually. “We are the only metro in the province, so people migrate here. We have more than 4-million people living in this city, therefore we can’t be immune to crime because this is where the economic activities are concentrated.”
“We are concerned about the ongoing killings of public representatives and mass killings that we are observing in our city. To accelerate our fight against crime, we met the minister of police Bheki Cele to assess the progress in the implementation of crime prevention plans.”
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