Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has issued a stark warning about a significant decline in the number of South African Police Service officers on the streets of the metro, calling the situation a collapse in police resources.
The mayor revealed in a Council meeting that SAPS staffing in the city has fallen by roughly 15 over the past four years, as reported by Smile FM.
This decline comes at a time when the City of Cape Town has been adding its own officers to the streets, a move it says is necessary to step into the gap left by the struggling national police service.