Certain roads in the Pretoria central business district were clogged with traffic on Wednesday as the Tshwane Metro Police cracked down on traffic violators with outstanding warrants of arrests.
The metro police held several roadblocks, stopping cars and looking at the registration of vehicles and drivers’ licences.
By lunchtime the metro police had already searched 600 vehicles and made 50 arrests.
”We settled 95 outstanding warrants of arrests in this way,” Mel Vosloo, metro police spokesperson, said.
Wednesday’s action was part of ”Operation Adherence”, which the metro police launched at the beginning of the month to go after traffic offenders, with up to 77 000 warrants of arrests outstanding in the city.
”This is not a money making scheme, we want people to take the traffic laws seriously,” said Vosloo.
The roadblocks were set to continue late into the afternoon. — Sapa