{"id":29788,"date":"2023-12-05T22:31:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aveholidays.com\/news\/cape-town-to-beef-up-security-around-tourist-hotspots-for-festive-season\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T22:31:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:31:19","slug":"cape-town-to-beef-up-security-around-tourist-hotspots-for-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/aveholidays.com\/news\/cape-town-to-beef-up-security-around-tourist-hotspots-for-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town to beef up security around tourist hotspots for festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"
CAPE TOWN – Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the city was on track for a record-breaking festive season, with thousands of tourists set to flood the Mother City for the festive season.<\/p>\n
Hill-Lewis spoke to Eyewitness News after the launch of the city’s festive season safety plan at the foot of Table Mountain on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The mayor said the integrated plan would ensure that everyone in the city, including its visitors, had a safe holiday season.<\/p>\n
“So we are making an extra deployment of just over 80 extra officers in tourist hotspots, specifically focused on tourism safety this peak visitor’s season.”<\/p>\n
Hill-Lewis said the city would also be assisting SANParks in policing the Table Mountain National Park area, where a number of robberies have recently occurred.<\/p>\n
“That is in partnership with extra officers that SANParks is also offering on the mountain, as well as SAPS [South African Police Service], who are helping us in this joint approach to make that everyone here, and everyone who visits us this festive season is safe.”<\/p>\n
The mayor said the city would provide 40 extra officers to help SANParks over the festive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CAPE TOWN – Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the city was on track for a record-breaking festive season, with thousands of tourists set to flood the Mother City for the festive season. Hill-Lewis spoke to Eyewitness News after the launch of the city’s festive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29789,"menu_order":0,"template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n