Jhb crime blitz pays - police
2003-06-28 14:46
Johannesburg - The number of fatalities at Johannesburg "hot spots" for crime was reduced to one from an average of seven for a Friday evening, following an eight-hour crime blitz in the city, Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar of the metro police said.
More than a thousand policemen, SA National Defence Force soldiers and metro police officers participated in the exercise.
Some 100 metro police officers were involved, using 50 cars.
Metro police manned 21 points, some of them in the northern susburbs and as far north as Sandton, Minnaar said.
"We are confident that the exercise reaped good benefits," he said.
- SAPA