A sweeping police operation descended on the City Centre this weekend, targeting select nightclubs in a multidisciplinary effort to enforce public safety.
Their mission focused on specific businesses, including nightclubs, security industry individuals linked to gang groups and businesses employing undocumented workers, ensuring compliance with the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) and other regulations.
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Authorities apprehended 14 unregistered security guards, while the Home Affairs Department detained four individuals for possessing expired documentation.
The City’s safety and security Mayco member, Alderman JP Smith, says the operation started on Friday and several major busts were made.
‘On Friday and Saturday a joint integrated multi-disciplinary operation conducted by SAPS WC-Anti-Gang Unit (AGU), City of Cape Town & Provincial Government with the mission to plan and execute operations with a targeted approach related to identified businesses that is food and liquor nightclubs, underworld figures of interest associated with the security industry, businesses operating with undocumented, unregistered, non compliance with PSIRA and other legislative directives that regulate the industries.’
‘The operation resulted positively with visits to 35 nightclubs where the successes were recorded by the different role players: City’s Environmental Health issued fines to the value of ±R50 000, Private Security Industry Regulation Act (PSIRA) arrested 14 unregistered securities. Home Affairs Immigration Services arrested 4 persons with expired documentation.’
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