Minister admits Cape cops have no real strategy to combat gangs

Minister admits Cape cops have no real strategy to combat gangs

- BY MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

ACTING Police Minister Professor Firoz Cachalia has admitted that there is no concrete plan to stop the wave of gang violence devastating the Cape Flats.

Addressing concerned Mitchells Plain residents, he said that while a strategy had been presented to him by provincial commissioner Lieutenant-General Thembisile Patekile, it has not been resourced or implemented.

Cachalia said during a community engagement yesterday: “The provincial commissioner and the head of crime intelligence presented me with a plan.

“They must still implement that plan. They must still resource that plan, that plan that is needed. So we need a stabilisation plan.