The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality's head of safety and security, John Best says the Metro is taking back its roads from lawlessness and the general disregard for traffic laws with the start of a duly authorized Metro Police ghost squad.
He was commenting after a covert Metro Police unit, operating with unmarked vehicles that are fully equipped to record traffic violations, took to the Metro's streets on Tuesday.
Best said the National Prosecuting Authority first had to approve the unit, which took months, and the officers were then trained to operate the on-board cameras effectively, to avoid legal loopholes for transgressors.
He said that within three hours of the unit starting its work, officers pulled over an overloaded taxi and charged the driver for contravening the National Road Traffic Act.
The four ghost squad vehicles from the Metro Police are in addition to the one covert vehicle from the Traffic Department, which brings the tally of unmarked vehicles in the Metro to five.
