DA throws support behind Cape Town’s fight for stronger metro police powers [SOUND]

# The DA in the Western Cape says it’s ready to back legislative changes giving the City of Cape Town’s metro police the power to investigate crime. The party accuses the acting Police minister, Firoz Cachalia, and those before him, of blocking this request for a whole year. The DA’s George Michalakis believes expanding these powers would strengthen the fight against crime, gangs and organised criminal networks: