More needs to be done to make OR Tambo airport a crime-free zone, says DA
The police’s efforts to make OR Tambo International Airport a crime-free zone have yielded results but more still needs to be done to intercept criminal syndicates operating in and around the national key point‚ DA shadow minister of police Zakhele Mbhele says. Mbhele conducted an oversight visit at South Africa’s busiest airport on Monday‚ a year after then national police minister Fikile Mbalula intervened by implementing the Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Tactical Security Plan following a crime wave. "The incidents of crime have been reduced but there are still challenges. There is understaffing of the police‚ and manpower needs to be beefed up to operate better despite improvement‚" he said. However‚ Mbhele said there was inadequate crime intelligence to combat the serious, organised crime including passport fraud‚ drug trafficking‚ violent crimes‚ and theft of luggage. "There is a need for crime intelligence to be beefed up‚ in particular because we were told that the officer i...
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