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Police emphasizes the threat to business and economic sustainability by cable theft

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The Deputy Minister of Police at a recent Business Breakfast Commercial Crime Stats business briefing emphasized need to bring cable thieves to justice! We would like to quote:

“Perhaps the greatest threat posed on the sustainability of the country’s infrastructure and related economy, is cable theft.

More so, theft of cables impacts negatively on both private and public business sectors in situations where there is a consequential loss of availability of working telephone lines, electricity and trains.

The loss of these services impacts negatively on productivity, planning and profit margins to create more jobs. But, there has been a strong focus by our Detective Services on syndicates profiling, and our Visible Policing Division is operating and inspecting in terms of the Second-Hand Goods Act.

In addition to these measures against cable theft, there is also a Non-Ferrous Metals Crime Combating Committee (NFMCCC), which, comprised of various role-players such as SAPS, Telkom, Eskom, Transnet, etc. The NFMCCC has prioritized the scrap metal market, where SAPS and other role-players conduct regular proactive operations involving specific identified scrap merchants.

Ladies and Gentlemen, as you can see, SAPS is at work every day against crime. But equally, we will continue to encourage for more police training on commercial crime, as like any other science, police training requires ongoing review and improvement. And, this requires the Business Sector’s 100% support in both financial and human resource.

Let us all present here, send a strong collective warning to all criminals and would-be criminals that collectively we would not tire to support our police officers to enforce the law to its maximum.

We are all here to ensure that our communities, businesses, schools, homes, recreational areas, are safe and secure. So, let us commit.

I thank you all!

Deputy Minister of Police”

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