8.
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if civilian police employees are added);
reorganisation
of the Force, doubling the strength of CID, the
introduction of beat radios, the creation of a Police
Cadet School of 600 to improve the calibre of
entrants, the setting up of Police Neighbourhood Units,
and wide measures of reform and innovation to improve
confidence between public and the Police. The
latter include an exceptionally successful Junior Police
Call scheme now numbering 150,000 young people. The
strength of the Auxiliary Force was increased from
3,300 to 5,000 and over 1,000 of these turn out for a
four-hour shift each day both to augment the regular
Force and increasingly to form a link between it and
the residents of each neighbourhood. On the civilian
side residents of blocks or streets are being gradually
organised into Mutual Aid Committees to help each other
and help the Police combat crime. 1800 of these have
already been formed and the number will be increased
to 2,230 in the course of 1976/77, when they will
cover about 37% of the population. They are the prime
responsibility of the Department of Home Affairs and
its staff is being steadily strengthened to give the
necessary support and guidance.
11.
This combination of measures appears
now to be holding the rise in crime, but much work
remains to be done to reduce it.
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