Cape Town – Each of the 500 new learner law enforcement officers who yesterday joined the City’s law enforcement advancement programme will be deployed to communities based on data and crime trends.
These include to Delft, Khayelitsha Site C, Philippi and Hanover Park.
In a joint statement, the City and the province said the officers underwent training, including peace officer training, a traffic
warden certificate and training in the by-laws of the City of Cape Town.
“Deployment will be progressive, and as new law enforcement officers are recruited, will expand into more areas.
"The next 500 learner enforcement officers will be deployed later this year, and recruitment for these officers is already under way,” they said.
The officers will be contracted until June 2023.
Separately, the metro police’s strategic surveillance unit now has a satellite CCTV control room in Muizenberg.
It comes less than a month after a similar launch in Ocean View.
Four cameras and two licence plate recognition cameras will be monitored from the control room at the Muizenberg Traffic Centre.
The camera feeds will be monitored by neighbourhood watch members, and law enforcement auxiliary members, who will be able to raise the alarm in the event that any incidents are detected, will also be used.
The cameras were paid for with ward allocation funding, at a cost of just over R300 000.