The Minister of Community Safety, Advocate Lennit Max, has called for an urgent meeting with the Mitchells Plain Community Policing Forum (CPF), after a forum member, Mr Vincent Naidoo, was gunned down by unidentified suspects on Friday night.
While the Forum members have condemned the shooting and apparently promised retaliation, Max cautioned them against taking the law into their hands. Max said that any retaliation against the suspected killers or criminals will be counter productive and the untimely death of Mr Vincent Naidoo will be rendered meaningless.
He praised the work and commitment of Naidoo who, although bound to a wheelchair, still valiantly fought crime in his community. This commitment of Naidoo remains an inspiration to all communities and CPF's, his contribution will sadly be undone if the community resort to any form of violence to fight violence.
Any form of vigilantism will not be tolerated in our communities as this will undermine the peace and stability in communities. Max reiterated that while law enforcing remain the duty of the police, the job of the community is overseeing effective policing and assisting the police with information.
The police and the community will continue their partnerships to make our province free from the fear of crime. Max is on a road show to all five regions in the province to hear from the CPF’s how they experience crime and what their expectations are from the Department of Community Safety as well as the police to address crime.
Julian Jansen
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