City of Tshwane working to make Pretoria CBD a safe place for all

Recently, I undertook a walkabout from our municipal headquarters, Tshwane House, by Sammy Marks in Madiba Street to Church Square to get a firsthand feel of our residents’ everyday experience of the inner city.

While a lot can improve to make the CBD cleaner and safer for all residents and visitors, there is a great deal of work that is already underway. The City has dedicated Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) inner city safety patrol teams as well as day and night inner city cleaning teams.

In the months of April to June 2024, our TMPD inner city teams conducted nine by-law operations, eight road policing operations and four Operation Shanela operations with the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the inner city. These operations resulted in 1 122 vehicles being impounded and 869 traffic violations being issued.

During the same period, the TMPD inner city teams conducted various searches and inspections with 97 businesses inspected, 565 vehicles checked and 258 persons searched.

Our mission is for residents to walk freely in a clean city without fear of being victims of crime. Public spaces such as Church Square are important assets to our city and must be as clean and safe as possible, because they serve a very important social role of building a sense of community and allowing people to enjoy the natural environment that Tshwane has to offer.

I want to thank the TMPD for their work in making the Pretoria CBD a fairly safe space for our residents. We still have a lot to improve on and I would like to encourage our inner city teams to maintain police visibility and make Tshwane a safe and clean city.

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