President Cyril Ramaphosa and Police Minister Bheki Cele will on Friday launch the Anti-Gang Unit in crime-ridden Hanover Park, Cape Town.
The Anti-Gang Unit is made up of members from specialised units, who are tasked to dislodge and weaken the capacity of gangs, with the aim of disrupting the criminal economy linked to gangsterism, drugs, firearm supply lines and other identified commodities.
“The Anti-Gang Unit has been in operation from 8 October 2018, deployed in Nyanga cluster, Bonteheuwel and Bishop Lavis. The unit will continue to be in full operation in the Peninsula area until communities in the greater Western Cape experience a return to normality,” said Police Ministry spokesperson Reneilwe Serero.
Serero said the President’s participation in the Hanover Park launch indicates his commitment and that of government at large to ensure that communities are able to live in safety while criminals are subjected to the full might of the law.