
MAYOR XHAKAZA ALONG WITH MINISTER OF POLICE POUNCE ON GERMISTON CBD
“The cooperation agreement signed on Tuesday in Tsakane along with national police and province is not just ink on paper, today we are demonstrating what we have committed to do for our communities which is to come down hard on any acts of criminality,” those are words of action by the Executive Mayor, Alderman Nkosindiphile Xhakaza. He was speaking during a crime fighting operation in Germiston yesterday, Wednesday, as he was joined by the Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu. The Minister also took the opportunity to engage with residents along his walkabout calling on them to be vigilant and work hand in glove with law enforcement officers to root out crime, even if anonymously.
The two leaders we accompanied by SAPS, EMPD, City Planning and Environmental health officials as they moved from one corner to another in the city centre of Germiston stretching to Primrose. Two other operations were happening in Benoni and Kempton Park simultaneously. All three blitz yielded over 200 arrests of illegal immigrants, several firearms confiscated and over 160 people arrested for various crimes also closure of some businesses due to non-compliance. Among the discoveries was a building in Germiston CBD with scores of shacks inside it and plenty of partitioned homes in an office space like manner. Investigations are ongoing probing the various transgressions found at that building.
When the operation in Germiston came to an end three suspected illegal miners were arrested and two firearms seized at an old mining site in Primrose. Crime fighting operations are continuing across the municipality on a regular basis. ‘We are reclaiming our streets and our communities from the hands of criminals working with various crime fighting entities alongside law enforcement officers’, Mayor Xhakaza has assured residents.