Open AccessTACKLING CRIME AT PROVINCIAL LEVEL: The Gauteng Safety Strategy: 2006–2014
Author(s) -
Office of the Gauteng MEC for Community Gauteng
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sa crime quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-3108
pISSN - 1991-3877
DOI - 10.17159/2413-3108/2007/v0i19a979
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , fist , political science , public administration , launched , engineering , medicine , physiology , philosophy , linguistics , electrical engineering
As in the case of Operation Iron Fist, reviewed in the previous article in this issue, the Gauteng Department of Community Safety has been at the forefront of innovative ways to improve safety in the province. This article briefly summarises the Gauteng provincial government’s Safety Strategy, adopted by the Provincial Executive in August 2006, and which will be publicly launched on 30 March 2007. The strategy is both comprehensive and ambitious, and as the first to provide a strategic framework for tackling violent and serious crime at the provincial level, will no doubt provide important lessons for other provinces to learn from.