191 LEAP officers will from Thursday, be deployed to crime-ridden areas on the Cape Flats.
The newly-trained officers will patrol in
Kraaifontein, Mfuleni, and Harare.
Additionally, more than 100 officers will be
deployed in the Khayelitsha, Mitchell's Plain, Delft, Gugulethu, Bishop Lavis,
Hanover Park, Phillipi area.
Community Safety MEC, Albert Fritz says the
deployment of the Kraaifontein team is especially timely in light of what
happened to nine-year old Shante Abrahams.
Abrahams was shot in the neck in a suspected
gang-related shooting in Scottsdene on Friday, in which a 30-year-old woman was
wounded and a 20-year-old man killed.
The girl had reportedly been waiting for
netball practice to start when the shooting occurred.
“As the Provincial Government, we continue to
do whatever we can in order to ensure that our children, like Shante, can live
in a world where she can go to netball practice without being caught in
crossfire; and that includes going beyond our mandate, as we are doing through
our Safety Plan, but it also includes challenging the severely-reduced human
and financial resource allocations to SAPS.”
Done By: Mitchum George
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