EMPD continues to enforce by-laws

Operations are continuing to weed out criminal activities.

March 17, 2023

Jani de Beer 1 minute read

The abandoned building on Tiptol Street, where eight occupants were living in an unsafe structure.

Members of the EMPD’s Bronberg Precinct conducted operations between March 13 and 15 in Crystal Park, aimed at enforcing local municipal by-laws.

According to the EMPD media liaison officer Lerato Monyane, separate contraventions were addressed and documented.

Cable theft
The EMPD arrested three boys, aged between 14 and 16, from Daveyton on March 13, at 21:50, on charges of cable theft.

“While patrolling the area, officers received information of people attempting to steal electrical cabling in Holding Street,” she said.

“They found the teens at the scene with a panga, cutting equipment, gloves and two rolls of a cable.”

Teenagers were arrested on charges of cable theft. They were in possession of two rolls of cabling.

Upon their arrest, the youths confessed that two other boys, who had run away upon seeing the EMPD officers, accompanied them.

The officers summoned the parents of the three to accompany the suspects to the Benoni Police Station.

Illegal operations
• Officers inspected a workshop dealing in scrap.

“The business did not comply with the regulations set out in the by-laws and they issued the owner with a notice relating to the failure to comply with the trading permit,” said Monyane.

• In Van Ryn Road, they confiscated tyres on the side of the road.

The 25-year-old owner of the stock was using an affidavit to trade, but this practice was illegal in terms of the National Road Traffic Act.

The EMPD confiscated these tyres from a vendor on Van Ryn Road.

• Further investigations led to a 35-year-old hawker found to be operating a food outlet on council-owned land without any documentation.

They issued her a notice and advised her to vacate the place within five working days.

Illegal occupation
• Responding to calls from the community where occupants were allegedly living in an unsafe structure, officers swooped on an abandoned building on Tiptol Street.

“The officers evacuated eight occupants from the structure,” said Monyane.

• In Wabler Street, an abandoned house that has been vacant for five years, was cordoned off. The EMPD requested the Human Settlement Department to intervene.

The EMPD operations are ongoing throughout Ekurhuleni and they urged members of the community to report criminal activities to their services call centre on 0860 543 000.

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