Afro Voice reports that a total of 600 metro police officers are set to be employed by the Mangaung metro to deal with law enforcement.
The mayor Olly Mlamleli announced last week that the metro will finally employ metro cops. She was speaking at the handing over of new fleet to the municipality law enforcement wing.
She said after they had appointed chief of metro police, they would have 600 new recruits in total but they would not be hired at the same time.
“In June we will take the first 100 to training and in January next year we will recruit 200 more and the number will be added with another 200 in June next year and it will go on and on until we reach 600 recruits.
She said they also handed out traffic police vehicles.
The mayor said they have bought fleet to improve service delivery.
“We cannot reveal how much we have spent so far because more cars are to be added to the fleet. We will reveal the amount once we are done with this purchase.
“Let me put clarity on this, we did not buy those cars cash, but bought it on instalment basis,” Mlamleli said.
She said there had been rumours that the municipality did not have diesel. “In actual fact, we have never had any shortage of diesel, it was stolen by some of the municipal workers and we are dealing with them at the moment, we will not tolerate that,” the mayor said.
- This report by Becker Semela appeared on page 8 of Afro Voice of 28 May 2018
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