300 CCTV cameras have been installed in crime hotspots of the Cape Town metro, with 279 cameras already functional. This is according to Reagen Allen, Western Cape Community Safety and Police Oversight Member of the Executive Council .
‘Currently, 93% of the cameras functional, because we are wanting to ensure that where technology can be used, it must be used, in our priority areas as well,’ said Allen, while addressing members of the Gugulethu community during a national police ministry crime prevention imbizo, as reported byGugulethu is among the areas where the CCTV cameras have been installed, which has been described as ‘an area which has one of the highest murder rates in the Western Cape’.
Cele reassured the residents by stating that the ministry had ‘implemented several measures to combat crime, particularly in hotspot areas’, adding that the police department had budgeted R70 million towards the Western Cape.
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