New metro graduates to protect the Metro
“Your main functions include serving, protecting and defending institutions of democracy and the communities of Ekurhuleni.”
Kwatsaduza – 263 new Metro police recruits graduated at the Germiston Stadium on Friday to safeguard Ekurhuleni.
The group started their basic 18 months training for enrolment into the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) in January 2018. They completed their programme in June 2019.
At a ceremony attended by family and loved ones, executive mayor Clr Mzwandile Masina urged the new police to maintain the same discipline inculcated in them at their training programme, and to be part of the City. He urged them to further their studies.
“Make the City and your families proud and above all, be guided by your conscience in terms of how you behave.
“Remember, in this field you have to be disciplined, and if you don’t have discipline, you do not belong in the EMPD.
“Your main functions include serving, protecting and defending institutions of democracy, and the communities of Ekurhuleni.”
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Masina added that the new graduates did not have a criminal record, and that they should keep it that way.
The new officers will be deployed to different EMPD precincts across the Metro to beef up the police visibility, crime prevention and to enforce the law and bylaws of the City.
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