By Akani Nkuna
THE Police Ministry and the South African Police Service (SAPS) will hold several meetings this month to get buy-in from provincial and local government to integrate resources to fight crime in the country.
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who addressed the National Assembly on Tuesday, said that the cooperative agreements included an operational plan that would eventually be rolled out to the country’s eight metros.
The ministry and police have already signed off on an operational plan with the City of Cape Town to combat crime. It includes working with the city’s police, private security companies and community policing forums.
Mchunu told MPs that Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape were currently responsible for 73% of the crime in the country. However, extortion had reached new levels throughout South Africa.
Communities were “angry, bitter and agitated,” he said.
While the police needed to play their
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