There has also been a decrease in contact crimes compared with the same period last year. In 2019 there were 22 robberies, 60 cases of theft out of motor vehicles and 20 cases of people fighting in public.
The CCID Safety & Security department has continued to operate at full capacity as an essential service during lockdown, with the full complement of 300 Public Safety Officers being deployed 24/7. The first week of lockdown was challenging, he said, as “full directives from our law agency partners had not yet filtered down to ground level and many people continued to act as if it was business as usual and wanted to roam the streets as normal”.
During the first weekend, 16 suspects were arrested, 14 for breaking into businesses and two for being in possession of implements to break into vehicles.
CapeTimesSA With all this looting shops and trucks
CapeTimesSA Welllll....duhhhhhhh 🥴
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