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The Durban Borough Police created in 1854, later to become the Durban City Police, and now the Durban Metro Police, to police the city of Durban: the force was headed by a Chief Constable and was modelled on British police forces. [1] "Municipal police forces" were also established in some cities in the 1980s, during the apartheid era.
The South African Policing Union (SAPU) was established in November 1993 and has an extensive membership within the policing cluster which includes the South African Police Service (SAPS), Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Metro Police Departments and Traffic Departments.
The government of Johannesburg's metropolitan area evolved over a seven-year period from 1993, when no metropolitan government existed under apartheid, to the establishment in December 2000 of today's Metropolitan Municipality. An "interim phase" commenced with the 1993 Constitution. This saw the establishment at the metropolitan level of the ...
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. Its 1,154 police stations [ 2 ] in South Africa are divided according to the provincial borders , and a Provincial Commissioner is appointed in each province.
Name Code Seat Area (km 2) [1] Population (2016) [2] Pop. density (per km 2); City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality: EKU Germiston: 1,975 3,379,104 1,710.6 City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
The Johannesburg Central Police Station is a South African Police Service police station in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. From its unveiling in 1968 until September 1997, it was called John Vorster Square , after Prime Minister B.J. Vorster .
In South Africa, a metropolitan municipality or Category A municipality is a municipality which executes all the functions of local government for a city or conurbation. This is by contrast to areas which are primarily rural, where the local government is divided into district municipalities and local municipalities .
Vehicles of the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) and the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) are identical in design, but JMPDs are orange and EMPDs are yellow. The JMPD and EMPD sometimes carry out joint operations. Transport routes between Johannesburg, East and West Rand share the same metropolitan route numbering system.