The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) has accepted the introduction of 131 new officers into the force on Friday, August 15, to boost its capacity to fight crime.
This comes at a time when safety and security in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) is in the spotlight, following the deaths of two children in Reiger Park due to crime recently.
The Executive Mayor Clr Mondli Gungubele is expected to give the new recruits, who were the best out of 150 candidates accepted into the EMPD learnership programme in December 2012, a firm welcome into one of the EMM’s most important jobs.
The officers began their training in January last year and have undergone a series of theory and practical tests to prove their competency to fulfill the duties of a Metro Police officer.
They will assume their posts on September 1. @BedfordJourno
