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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES
FOR ORAL REPLY
QUESTION NO 14
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 3 MARCH 2010
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 3- 2010)
Date reply submitted: 23 March 2010
14. Mr TD Harris (DA-WC) to ask the Minister of Police:
Whether he has any strategy in place to end the crime wave in (a) Woodstock
and (b) the southern suburbs of the Cape Peninsula; if not, why not; if so,
what are the relevant details?
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REPLY:
a) and (b) The strategy for dealing with crime in the Southern suburbs is
located within the broader strategic imperatives and the key result areas
of the People Oriented Sustainable Strategy (POSS). POSS is fundamentally
the implementation of government policing policy underpinned by specific
critical success factors.
All stations around the country are grouped in clusters within the
Provinces. Woodstock police station is found in the Cape Town Cluster.
Clusters are the extension of the Provincial Office and are led by Senior
Managers who give strategic leadership on the lower level. The table
below depicts the clusters and cluster managers in the southern suburbs.
|Name of Cluster |Stations in the |Cluster Commander |
| |Cluster | |
|Cape Town |Cape Town Central |Assistant Commissioner |
| | |Robberts |
| |Woodstock | |
| |Tablebay Harbour | |
| |Camps Bay | |
| |Sea Point | |
|Wynberg |Wynberg |Director Niewoudt |
| |Diepriver | |
| |Steenberg | |
| |Kirstenhof | |
| |Grassy Park | |
|Claremont |Claremont |Snr Supt Botha |
| |Mowbray | |
| |Rondesbosch | |
|Muizenburg |Muizenberg |Snr Supt Swanepoel |
| |Fish Hoek | |
| |Simonstown | |
| |Ocean View | |
| |Hout Bay | |
The following objectives are implemented to deal with the crime levels in
the Southern Suburbs.
Strategic Objective : Address crime generators, namely: Drugs,
alcohol and gangsterism.
Key Action : Conduct combined focused operations across
station and cluster boundaries;
Implement station liquor strategies;
Conduct focused operations at Second Hand
Dealer Shops.
Strategic Objective: Sustain and build new partnerships
Key Action : Conduct Imbizos with the communities;
Conduct awareness programmes about safety hints.
Strategic Objective: Sustain and reinforce the implementation of
sector policing
Key Action : Maintain minimum standards of sector
policing
Strategic Objective: Effective implementation of the Toxic Algae
Strategy
Key Action : Sustain Highflyer Approach
Intensify planned intelligence led operations
Strategic Objective: Coordinate and integrate information
Key Action : Ensure effective functioning of all
cluster operational rooms;
Link cluster operational rooms with the Provincial
Command Centre
Strategic Objective: Optimise crime investigation by effective
implementation of the Detectives 10 Point Plan
(See Attached Plan).
Key Action : Ensuring quality investigations and arrests
Developing informer networks
Managing mainframe systems and ensuring data
integrity
Reply to question 14 approved Minister