By: Natasha Archary

Police Minister Bheki Cele said police don’t know weekends, as they are always working and fighting crime.
The Minister was speaking at a media briefing on Monday, 16 October, where he warned South Africans about the high crime days.
“Police don’t get weekends off now. Station commanders don’t know anything called weekends.
Many of them have outstanding cases on murder, house robberies, hijackings and all that.
We can’t allow the country to be co-governed with criminality.
From Thursday until Monday morning, those are very crime active days, but we have saturated that.”
Police Minister Bheki Cele
Cele’s confidence in SAPS’ ability to curb crime came just days before a deadly shootout in Ntuzuma, north of Durban, where 4 suspects and a police officer were killed.
According to Cele, police understand there is no “free blood” in the fight against crime.
“Police must understand that there will be one way of dealing with those bloody criminals, who think they can plan and plot.
It’s a new thing, they also plan and plot for for the elimination of police, they have names of police officers that they want to eliminate.
I’m guaranteeing that we will be the last man standing. We’re not going to give that, we’re not going to retreat, if it needs to be these kinds of results everyday let it be.”
Bheki Cele on the recent shootout in KZN
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