a month ago teams of the police national intervention Unit were deployed to and the police Minister also engaged the public in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has also set aside 16.4 million Rand for efforts to reduce crime and to install sensitive cameras in hot spots meanwhile the rain of Tera continues it's it's uh it's it's painful what is happening in our Metro in these days it's so sad um to that an extent that people cannot move freely and cannot mourn their loved ones you know as they wish because of crime what is happening in our areas we are so Disturbed as the church and one of um I I think which I will assist those ministers who have already taken an initiative uh to to to to to make awareness about what is happening when it comes to these extortions and crime this is a bad habit um especially in in this area of it's an unusual thing you know uh we grew up knowing that when someone is having a funeral um the sign would be a tent family will erect a tent but now it has seemed that erecting a tent is attracting criminals and these criminals they enter in the house they rob everybody and they want the monies that are being donated by the community and it's a bad it's a bad act the work done by the police tus far have been commended Minister szu has been given a very clear task by President s Raposa and all of us in government were supporting him in ensuring that uh we clean our communities of the rot uh which is ER manifesting itself in the form of uh different forms of criminality including extortion and so on and I'm sure you can see that um uh our men in blue our men and women in Blue uh are not uh taking any chance uh wherever and whenever criminals show their ugly head um they dealt with decisively moral Decay and loss of Traditional Values have been highlighted as part of the problem somebody has to take responsibility because uh uh it is what it is today because there's a failure of governance failure of the government in the province failure of um of policing in the province several role players have offered to help fight crime here we are we know exactly what to do it can never be that it would be a day as usual whilst our people can never bury the their loved one know are not decently where they would have the fear of even you know erecting a tent you know I would imagine in a weather like this when someone passes on in the within the the society it will be difficult for that family to actually bury the person because they are fearing that they will be trans they will be made to transfer money the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro plans to continue it public engagement on crime zbc news