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• Various safety networks were implemented, including an international safety network<br />
involving Interpol to fight international crimes such as fraud, counterfeit currency, gun<br />
smuggling and narcotics-related crime; a southern African safety network involving the<br />
police services of South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana,<br />
Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Swaziland; and a border safety network in<br />
South Africa aimed at preventing cross-border criminal activity.<br />
• In an attempt to combat vehicle crime, the SAPS and the Tracker Network launched<br />
a nationwide vehicle recovery system in Johannesburg on 1 October 1996. The system<br />
consisted of a small transponder hidden in a vehicle and a police tracking unit fitted into<br />
SAPS patrol cars, aircraft and strategic locations such as the 48 border posts and ports.<br />
The entire network was set up at no cost to the SAPS.<br />
• On 14 November 1996, the United Nations Drug Control Programme and the SAPS<br />
launched an anti-narcotics project to stem drug trafficking from other African countries<br />
into South Africa. Under the project, trained narcotics dogs would be sent to central and<br />
eastern African countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana and Zambia.<br />
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• A new police unit aimed at curbing the smuggling trade was deployed in South<br />
Africa on 18 November 1996. The unit, known as the Border Unit, was deployed at<br />
the international airports of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg and at border<br />
posts and ports.<br />
• The Swedish Government, through its international Development Agency, donated<br />
R1,5 million towards the training of SAPS members in human rights. The project<br />
formed part of an information programme for SAPS legal adviSgt and trainers from<br />
the nine provinces who formed an integral part of the service’s human resources<br />
development plan.<br />
Some R240 million was set aside to upgrade 65 police stations in 1996<br />
• Various initiatives against crime were launched in the course of 1996. Business Against<br />
Crime was launched in certain provinces under the umbrella of Business South Africa.<br />
Business Against Crime funded an e-mail facility linking the police chiefs of 22 southern<br />
African countries.<br />
• In November 1996, the SAPS introduced a new credit-card-size identity card for its<br />
members. The new card was easier to carry than the old identity cards, more difficult to<br />
forge and bore the new police logo. New uniforms were also phased in.<br />
A small transponder installed in a SAPS vehicle to help combat vehicle crime