Police identify 300 high risk areas during local government elections - The Mail & Guardian

will be on standby to provide support to the Electoral Commission of South Africa and the police, and will protect national key points.

“The deployment of the police, SANDF and other law-enforcement agencies will be determined and guided by structured threat analysis and crime patterns. Over and above the physical deployments of police officers at voting districts, reserve forces from the police are on standby to provide additional assistance should the need arise in and around the identified hotspot areas.

Violent incidents during voter registration in KwaZulu-Natal point towards high levels of political intolerance in the Midlands and other parts of the province. The IEC confirmed that three registration centres in the Msunduzi municipality were unable to open because of protests. Nationally, 63 centres were not able to open for registration for a variety of reasons, among them protests.

What will SAPoliceService achieve with identifying 3000 hotspots? They can't catch the 12 masterminds plus the big fishes in Sindiso Magaqa, Senzo Meyiwa & Bozwana murders

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