13 May 2013
The Safety and Security Potfolio Committee
last week announced that members of the public would be able to go along with
the city's metro police, law enforcement, traffic police, disaster risk
management and fire and emergency services to anti-crime patrols.
Safety and security mayoral committee
member JP Smith said the patrols will be done with certain number people
present; including members of the press and researchers, and in areas that are
seen as safe.
Smith explained that the purpose of the
exercise was to allow public insight into how metro police, traffic law
encforcement and emergency services operate.
“We have now been able to structure it formally
and properly within the policy and are extending it to members of the public
with the intention of making it available to kids” Smith added.
Smith also said that it will show the
publics the hardships law enforcers deal with and hopes more empathy with the
polilce will arise.
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