Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes with the utmost concern and apprehension the story of a 43- year-old woman who was left paralysed from the chest down after being shot by a Johannesburg metro police officer at a roadblock in Midrand early this year;
2) further notes that despite the fact that an innocent resident was shot and her normal life brought to an abrupt stop, and that two police officers have been identified as the possible culprits, the Johannesburg Metro has not conducted ballistic tests on the two firearms of the police officers who have since indicated that one of them could have shot the woman; and
3) condemns in the harshest possible terms such recklessness by the Johannesburg Metro and calls on the mayor of Johannesburg and the MEC for safety in Gauteng to ensure that the ballistic results for this incident are made available by Friday, 25 November 2011, failing which, to instruct the committee dealing with safety matters in the NCOP to summon the mayor of Johannesburg and the MEC for safety in Gauteng to present an oral or written report on this incident.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.