| Police management capacitates trio crimes task teams with additional vehicles | |
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| Date Published: | 2017/06/08 |
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Media Statement from KwaZulu-Natal Media Centre Corporate Communication South African Police Service Police Management in KwaZulu-Natal has identified that trio crimes (aggravated robberies) which include hijackings; house robberies and business robberies, has shown some resistance to respond to the interventions that were implemented. A provincial Trio Crimes Task Team was formed to deal with these aggravated robberies. Since the inception of the Task Team these categories of crimes are on the decline. APS has also identified clusters that require interventions and each of these clusters have formed a multi-disciplinary task team that includes role players from: • Visible policing • Intelligence • Detectives • Tactical Response Teams • Metro Police • NIU These members have undergone an orientation phase prior to their deployment and will be rotated regularly. The Tasks Teams have being activated, resourced and capacitated without compromising the day to day functioning of frontline services at station level. Teams will be managed from the Cluster Operational Command Centres, who will be monitoring the crime and deploying their teams accordingly. Today SAPS Management has handed over 12 brand new vehicles to the provincial Trio Crimes Task Team to further capacitate them in dealing with hijackings, business robberies, house robberies and other serious crimes in the province. The Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Bheki Langa has promised to provide further support to these Trio Crimes Task Teams in the form of additional resources. “We have secured more funds for overtime as well as 17 additional vehicles for our Trio Crimes Task Teams which will be delivered next week. Criminals need to feel the heat and the recent confrontations with criminals is just an indication of things to come. Our members will be a thorn in the flesh of these thugs and there will be no place for them to hide,” he said. Media Contact: Brigadier Jay Naicker-082 556 7865
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