Preventing crime, school security high on agenda

Crime prevention and school security are high on the province’s government’s agenda for this year.

MEC for police, road and transport Thabo Manyoni said this during the presentation of his budget for 2011/12.

Unveiling the budget at Bothaville on Friday, Manyoni said increased planning and additional resourcing for road traffic law enforcement, had led to a substantial reduction in road accidents.

Manyoni promised that his department would intensify the war against crime and corruption.

“We will harness and prioritise our resources on all critically high crime hotspots as will be from time to time evidenced by crime statistics.

“This will include identification, in collaboration with the education department, of 15 high crime schools as part of our school safety programme.”

He also applauded the police for a job well done, saying: “For the 2010/11 financial year, as of December 2010, we have received 185 complaints from members of the public of which 100% were investigated and concluded.”

Manyoni added that the department was running victim empowerment centres at selected police stations with 180 volunteers, each receiving a monthly stipend of R400.”

Referring to the problem of escalating stock theft, Manyoni said that their government would work closely with the government of neighbouring Lesotho to curb the problem.

“Research and statistics have proven that the high prevalence of livestock theft is more in areas along the borders of Lesotho and South Africa. In this regard, we will step up our collaboration with livestock owners and the mountain kingdom of Lesotho in the fight against this and other related cross-border crimes,” he said. Manyoni said in order to address the declining numbers of traffic officers, his department was advertising jobs this financial year.

“As part of our strategy to recognise, identify and retain talent among our traffic officers, we have already advertised 52 vacant posts for officers internally. In addition to this we will advertise 100 more positions,” he said.

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Source :  thenewage.co.za - Mar 28 2011

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