Another 40 new high performance vehicles strengthen JMPD fleet
14 October 2019
Today, 14 October 2019, I took delivery of 40 new high performance vehicles that were handed over to the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department’s Special Patrol Unit (JMPD SPU) at the Public Safety Department Headquarters in Martindale.
I was joined by the Speaker of Council, Cllr Vasco Da Gama, the Chairperson of the Section 79 Committee, Cllr Hilton Masera, and other councillors and officials as the 40 new Volkswagen Golf GTIs were formally handed over to the JMPD SPU.
These 40 new vehicles will be utilized by the JMPD SPU in its daily tasks ranging from attending to accident scenes, rapid deployment to crime scenes, land invasions, dealing with road traffic offences at identified hotspots, visible policing, patrols and events management, amongst others.
At many traffic management hotspots, like the corner of Witkoppen and Main Roads bordering Lonehill and Bryanston, we find brazen disregard for the rules of the road. In the past week, I joined the JMPD SPU’s traffic management operation at this hotspot where 15 minibus taxis were impounded for offences ranging from unroadworthiness to driving unlicensed vehicles.