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By IOL Reporter 
10h ago
Cape Town – With the growing belief that Baden Powell Drive, along the coast between Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Strandfontein, has become a dumping ground for murdered people, Mayor Dan Plato said Monday that the city of Cape Town del Cabo has a plan to combat this.
Community policing forums in Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain have asked law enforcement officers and police to conduct regular patrols along Baden Powell Drive following the discovery of at least seven bodies since March.
Plato told Cape Talk on Monday that he had asked city officials to come up with a proposal to improve lighting along the 25km stretch of the highway. There is also the possibility that they are installing CCTV cameras in hot spots.
“We make regular efforts to replace and increase the number of streetlights, particularly in hot spots, but we have had to deal with recurring cable theft.
“We hope to install high mast lighting as a lasting deterrent and we are evaluating the feasibility of this,” Plato said.
Two weeks ago the body of a woman with gunshot wounds to the head and body, believed to be in her 30s, was found.
Hours after the discovery of his body, a 30-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to the head along Baden Powell Drive, Khayelitsha. They rushed him to the hospital.
The incidents came just over two weeks after police discovered the decomposing bodies of a woman and a man in the bushes on Baden Powell Drive, Mitchells Plain, late last month.
Mitchells Plain CPF President Abie Isaacs has noted with concern that “people are committing crimes outside of our police station and throwing them into our areas.”
Community Security MEC Albert Fritz has requested a report from the provincial police commissioner on such incidents, asking for a SAPS plan to address this trend.
Plato said that he had requested that the SAPS properly investigate the incidents.
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