Local CPF calling on Zuma to honour his word following violent protests
"If not stemmed immediately, the entire South Africa will suffer the consequences as these ‘protest actions’ will escalate to many towns and cities."
Gert J Jonker, chairperson of the Krugersdorp Community Police Forum (CPF), is urging the Minister of Police to immediately implement the deployment of specialised policing resources (drug task teams) as promised by President Jacob Zuma in Parliament some years ago.
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“We also ask the Minister to appoint a task team to investigate the alleged collusion with criminals by law enforcement officials.We urge the National Police Commissioner to immediately strengthen policing resources in the Krugersdorp police area by filling all vacant posts with suitably qualified and experienced police officers and also to equip them with vehicles and other tools to do their work effectively,” Jonker’s statement reads.
Jonker states that as the CPF Krugersdorp, they are committed to their mandate to, in partnership with the police, make the city a safe place for all to live and work in.
“We call upon both the Minister of Police and the National Police Commissioner to strengthen that policing partnership.”
Jonker and his team are not blind to the reports of the police’s lack of response to the war against drugs.
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“Despite an excellent working relationship with the Krugersdorp Police, who by and large are professional and committed to creating and maintaining a safe society, systemic challenges such as the lack of resources – both physical and human – are hampering effective community policing.”
They call upon the Minister of Police and the National Police Commissioner to hear their plight, and the plight of children who are being killed by drugs and whose lives are being destroyed by prostitution and human trafficking.
Jonker attributes the city-wide shut down that occurred on Monday, 22 January, to four ‘inactive groupings’:
1. The local government which cannot police its own bylaws and which allows criminals free rein in the city, resulting in urban decay of a grave nature which feeds the cycle of criminality.
2. Property owners who rent their properties to persons who use said properties to establish/ maintain criminal enterprises, whilst the property owners benefit financially from the rental income.
3. Collusion with drug and prostitution kingpins by a small number of law enforcement officials, which tarnishes the image of an entire police force and wrongfully destroys the credibility of policing and law enforcement officers.
4. The inability by the protectors of our borders (Home Affairs) to keep criminal elements who arrive and settle in our city with false/ forged documentation for the purpose of operating criminal enterprises, out of the country.
“If not stemmed immediately, the entire South Africa will suffer the consequences as these ‘protest actions’ will escalate to many towns and cities,” Jonker concluded.
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