EDITOR – As with the widely enjoyed and laughed-at “Nuisances and Behaviour in Public Places By-law, 2015”, this “Public Transport By-law, 2014” (2014!?) is sure to provide lots of comic-relief.
The former repealed, wholly or partially, 36 historically un-enforced By-Laws and the latter repeals 14 – also historically un-enforced.
If the City Metro Police did honour its “Services We Offer”, there would have been absolutely no need to re-hash 50 By-Laws into these two.
As with the former, one month into the promulgation of the latter, the Metro Police Deputy Head may well admit, once again, that “some of the laws are really impractical to police” – and level blame on the SAPS.
Well even today, over a month since he said “all 68 nuisance by-laws are now on the CAS (Crime Administration System) system”, and Metro Police “can now formally take infringements to SAPS”, his Department is yet to find the starting blocks!
Mahmood
North Beach
