Police will be taking a harsh stance against criminals this festive season.
That’s the word from Police Minister Bheki Cele. He was speaking at the launch of the Gauteng police Safer Festive Season Operation in the west of Johannesburg.
“We are sitting at around 3 billion illicit trades here, all these things you see here are counterfeit things not only here, inside there are big boxes as we listen you realise that there is a fiscal blood bath which the minister will tell us on the 1st of November,” says Cele. “During this time there is no police that goes to leave. Everyone comes back and we work. South Africans must be safe, and our visitors must enjoy the proper festive season. But we are also blessed to say that come 15 December, the president releases 10 000 officers that are in training as we speak and they help to increase capacity and visibility and as they come out of training they are deployed and they increase visibility,” Cele adds.
“Let me apologise to society because they are going to be inconvenienced as long as you are in Gauteng. We are putting up to 18 000 CCTV cameras. So, we will be monitoring every movement. We are putting drones and helicopters, there will be lots of roadblocks and stop and searches and taverns searched and there will be police invading people’s space. So let me apologise,” says Lesufi.
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