In a bid to join hands and strengthen their fight against crime, the SA Police Service on Tuesday handed over eight new vehicles to the heads of the various community policing forums in the province.
As soon as news broke on Thursday morning of a young woman being kidnapped outside her workplace in Nelson Mandela Bay, the comparisons between her disappearance and that of another Bay woman Jayde Panayiotou nearly eight years ago started making the rounds.
Nearly 200 more murders took place in the Eastern Cape between October and December compared with the same period the previous year, with New Brighton topping the log for the police station with the most murders.