Parliament's police portfolio committee has called the South African Police Service (SAPS) station commanders of the five police stations in South South Africa with the highest incidents of violent crime to account on Tuesday.
Committee chairman Francois Beukman said it was critical for violent crime to be addressed as the number one priority of the SAPS.
The Station Commanders of the following stations have been summonsed to appear at the Committee on Tuesday.
Hillbrow
Johannesburg Central
Kagiso
Mitchells Plain
Nyanga
Beukman said this is to look at the current SAPS strategy on combatting contact crime.
Murder, attempted murder, robbery, and rape are the crimes that affect the safety of communities and the necessary strategic and operational measures should be taken to intervene in the top five crime stations.
The committee had always emphasised that SAPS needed to act pro-actively to ensure that police stations had the necessary resources to deal with the crime profile in the five precincts.
The Civilian Secretariat of Police had also been invited to brief the committee on the root causes contributing to the high crime rate in the affected areas.
Some of the root causes contributing to contact crime, ie lack of social cohesion, the poor environmental design of neighbourhoods, illegal liquor outlets, poor street lights, availability of illegal guns, and the prevalence of gangs will also be under the spotlight.
- African News Agency (ANA)
