The South African Police Service has together with the Justice Crime Prevention and Security, JCPS; cluster compiled a multidisciplinary and integrated plan to implement during the festive season, in 2019-20. The operation was launched on 25 October 2019 in Umlazi, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal and will be conducted country wide until 31 January 2020. The plan focuses on the most affected police stations informed by the crime pattern and threat analysis.
The activities included the following: High visibilities to maintain weekly from Mondays to Wednesdays, including social crime prevention campaigns and community engagements; Thursdays are for compliance inspections and operations in terms of enforcement of Fire Arms Control Act, conduct compliance inspections and identify private security companies, fire arms retailers and taxi ranks; enforcement of the Liquor Act of 2003, conduct compliance inspections, as well as cordon and search operations at identified liquor outlets; enforcement of Secondhand Good Act, conduct inspections and compliance inspection at the identified secondhand goods; Fridays to Mondays mornings are for combat operation that is cordon and search, roadblocks and intelligence-driven disruptive operations including policing of events that are associated with the festive season.
Preparations are in place in terms of resources and enough personnel will be available for operation deployment. With the minimum number of SAPS personnel that will be on plant leave. A total of 5000 police students are due to complete their academic training at the end of November 2019 and will be deployed as part of
the in-service training to increase visibility. A maximum number of reservists have also been called up to be placed on duty throughout the country; the project of fixing and fitting blue lights and marking of all visible policing vans is being finalized in order to intensify police visibility. Thank you very much.