Cape Town - Western Cape Community Safety MEC Dan Plato warned people that hurting or killing a police officer was a crime against the state, during an anti-crime walkabout in Philippi on Thursday.
"You are committing a crime against the state and you will be punished," said Plato, through a wireless microphone, with a huge sound system on a bakkie driving ahead of him.
Behind him, members of the KTC community policing forum handed out flyers with police contact numbers, and encouraged inquisitive residents to be their "eyes and ears on the ground".
