The Democratic Alliance (DA) has taken its fight for the devolution of police powers to the Cape Flats, marching in Mitchells Plain to drum up support for its cause.
DA leader, John Steenhuizen, says the DA-led province is ready to step into what he says is the failure of national government to keep communities safe.
They want autonomy for provinces to run their respective police services.
Steenhuizen says policing is failing under the current leadership.
“Given the fact that Cape Town has one of the worst policed population rations, thanks to Minister Bheki Cele’s starving of the resources of the Western Cape, crime would be more if the city had not adopted the leaf programme, which has reduced crime significantly. Now Minister Cele wants to take and get his inefficient, his ineffective and under-resourced hands on the Metro Police in the City of Cape Town and turn it into the same mess he’s turned the SAPS into.”
The DA is out in full force in Mitchells Plain today to protest against Bheki Cele’s plan to hijack local policing through the Single Police Service. While Cele has cut SAPS by 550 officers, the DA is deploying 1 000 LEAP officers!#GHLforMayor #VoteDA pic.twitter.com/LWDBYMnTHe
— Geordin Hill-Lewis (@geordinhl) September 30, 2021
In the video below, DA wants to control policing in Cape Town: Geordin Hill-Lewis
Today, DA Leader @jsteenhuisen leads a protest in Mitchells Plain against Bheki Cele’s plan to hijack local law enforcement in Cape Town.
The people of Mitchell’s Plain reject the ongoing efforts by Cele and the ANC to capture Cape Town’s local law enforcement powers! pic.twitter.com/qK7SrfAPwb
— Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) September 30, 2021
In the video below, the DA protests in Cape Town over single policing service for SA
