DA will fight crime with the ‘real power’ of provincial policing, says Mmusi Maimane
DA outlines plan to transform police force into ‘one with the skills and the power to kick violent criminals‚ gangsters and drug dealers out of our communities for good’
A DA-led government would seek to decentralise policing and give provinces real power in crime fighting and community protection‚ DA leader Mmusi Maimane said on Saturday. Addressing the party’s Western Cape registration rally in Bonteheuwel in Cape Town‚ Maimane said the DA’s candidate for premier of the province in the 2019 elections‚ Alan Winde‚ had made it clear that he would fight for a provincial police force that could best serve the communities of the Western Cape. “We want a police force for our province‚ controlled by our province‚ for the people of our province‚” the DA leader said. He said that ultimately the goal was for a DA-led national government so that the party could realise its dream of a safe South Africa by transforming the police force into “one with the skills and the power to kick violent criminals‚ gangsters and drug dealers out of our communities for good”. “To do so‚ we will professionalise the police force‚ appointing only skilled and qualified leadershi...
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