# The City of Cape Town’s Safety and Security Directorate has increased its staffing numbers in Somerset West to help maintain calm amid an increase in tensions between taxi organisations. Taxi drivers blockaded routes in Somerset West on Monday morning, following the killing of a Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association taxi owner in Lwandle, Strand, on Saturday. Mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, says traffic and metro police officers are on high alert:
City of Cape Town has boosted its policing deployment in Somerset West amidst taxi tension [SOUND]
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