Resolution on the devolution of policing powers in Cape Town to be tabled in council [SOUND]

# The City of Cape Town’s Safety and Security portfolio committee has endorsed a motion for the devolution of policing powers to the metro. The resolution will be tabled at the next full sitting of Council. Committee chairperson, Mzwakhe Nqavashe, says the resolution demands that the national government devolve investigative powers to the metro for crime categories such as gang-related violence, firearm offences, extortion and drug trafficking: