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17 May 2019
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Police reservists sought to combat rural crime
■ Justice Makhele
Farm attacks and murders came under the spotlight earlier this month when South Africa’s top cop, National Commissioner Khehla Sitole, met with a delegation from the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) to seek ways of increasing capacity to effectively combat rural crime.According to an SA Police Service (SAPS) statement, the organisation’s rural safety strategy “strives to address rural safety as an integrated day-to-day policing approach by creating a safe and secure rural environment”. Reporting on the meeting Maroela Media notes SAPS plans to implement a police reservist recruitment programme this year with the sole objective of putting reservists into rural areas.