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24/07/2008 10:52 AM - (SA) Top five in Western Cape Janine van der Riet
This is a performance excellence incentive for top performance. Stations are judged on different aspects, but the most important aspect is in terms of management and crime reduction. When Supt Phumzile Cetyana took over as station commissioner on 1 March 2007, he started to assess the crime statistics and the different facets in the workplace. Since the day he was appointed, he started with new strategies to reduce crime and made up a task team comprising of four detectives and four members in uniform to visit each and every crime scene. The detectives are on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The perpetrators in the taxi violence were stopped in their tracks after they went on a killing spree last year. The two hitmen were caught and are behind bars. Cetyana took it upon himself to deal with the pressure that they applied to perpetrators, and as a result they managed to get the crime rate down, the first time in years. Capt Rewayne Muller, spokesperson for the SAPS says: “The accomplices of the hitmen who are out on bail are under supervision, and our reaction and breakthrough with the arrests makes them shiver.” Cetyana also have a strategy towards inmates out on parole. “They get monitored frequently and they know that we are constantly watching them. They cannot be allowed out of jail and then continue with their crime sprees, they will be caught,” he says. Combatting crime is the police's greatest challenge, but Cetyana's winning recipe is a hands-on approach. Muller said when he started working with Cetyana, he was amazed by the latter' commitment and the excellent example he portrays. “I would phone him at 02:00 about a case and he would be wide awake and at the scene already,” Muller exclaimed. The police also had tremendous success with retrieving illegal weapons, which directly decreased crime in the area.
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