The Democratic Alliance (DA) has repeated its call to give it more control and oversight of police in the Western Cape.
While giving a briefing on the state of the cities under its control on Tuesday, the DA revealed that it was pushing ahead with plans for a provincial police force.
The party wants to take over responsibility of running the police, which would most likely require a legislative amendment to decentralise the police.
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“The Constitution says it is not my job for policing, and that’s why I’m saying if we can’t be fixing this, we need to devolve that power because I want the responsibility. I actually want to step into that space and take that responsibility – and that’s why we are pushing so hard with this,” said Western Cape Premier Alan Winde.
DA leader Mmusi Maimane said: “The country has lost the war on crime and decentralising the police would assist.”
“It does require some Constitutional matters but I think we’ve found a way where provinces that are DA-led, we want to be able to advance this legislation so that we can be able to respond to crime,” he said.
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