Government has strengthened the ranks of the South African Police Service (SAPS) through the recruitment of 20 000 police officers over the last two years, and another 10 000 in the year to approach.
This as portion of the country’s achievements highlighted by President Cyril Ramaphosa, delivering his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday evening, in a year the country marks 30 years of democracy.
President Ramaphosa was firm that South Africans deserve to be safe and to feel safe, to walk freely and without fright in their neighbourhoods and public spaces.
The President highlighted that during this administration, government has focused on equipping the law enforcement agencies, which had been systematically weakened, to carry out their work effectively.
“An extra 5 000 police officers believe been deployed to Public Order Policing. The SAPS has launched Operation Shanela as a modern approach to target crime hotspots, which resulted in over 285 000 arrests since May last year.
“The Economic Infrastructure Task Teams that are operational in every provinces believe had indispensable successes in combatting cable theft, damage to critical infrastructure and illegal mining,” the President said.
Through close collaboration with the private sector, South Africa has seen a reduction in security incidents on the rail network.
“We launched the modern Border Management Authority last year to improve the security of our borders and acquire already stopped over 100 000 people who tried to enter our country illegally.
“Together with civil society, we developed the National Strategic Region on Gender-Based Violence, as a society wide response to this pandemic. Around R21 billion was dedicated over the medium term to the implementation of the six pillars of the region, including the economic empowerment of women.”
The President also noted other achievements, including the introduction of novel laws to strengthen the response of the criminal justice system to gender-based violence, as well as the provision of better support to survivors of such violence.
He emphasised that the government’s ultimate goal is to stay gender-based violence altogether by mobilising every of society.
“As portion of this, we support the call for a pledge that men in South Africa are invited to seize to demonstrate their personal commitment to ending this scourge. Women are also in the process of developing their own pledge.
“We still maintain a long way to disappear to build safer communities, prevent violent crime, and protect our infrastructure. But there is no doubt that a professional, well-trained, and properly resourced police force, working closely with communities, will manufacture our country a safer spot,” the President said.– SAnews.gov.za
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