The City of Tshwane has launched a bicycle unit to help fight crime in the country’s capital city.The unit is a result of a partnership that began a year ago between the city and the Hatfield City Improvement District (CID). The CID is a nonprofit organisation made up of property owners in the area. Bicycles were funded by the business community within CID. The unit is part of the Tshwane Metro Police Department.Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga said the unit would start with just 20 officers who volunteered to join but was expected to be expanded to other parts of Tshwane‚ including the city centre."Ideally we would like to have a permanent bicycle unit in every ward. Here [in Hatfield] there will be 10 officers at any given time. The plan is to roll it out elsewhere. But we are not going to be able to have 10 in every area. We are moving towards a system where we have 10 metro police officers per ward. It will be a mix — some on bicycles and some in vehicles‚" he said."We have been abl...
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