City of Cape Town not seeking to replace SAPS: Hill-Lewis
Hill-Lewis today announced a formal inter-governmental dispute with the acting Police Minister Feroz Cachalia over the devolution of policing powers to Metro Police.
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says they are not trying to replace the South African Police Service (SAPS) but want to bolster crime-fighting efforts.“The acting police minister recently tabled the SAPS Amendment Bill which was the ideal opportunity to rectify this but it was yet another and the biggest and loudest opportunity squandered as the amendment bill contains no changes to the section of the SAPS Act that would give us meaningful investigative abilities.
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