CoJ still to provide evidence of SAPS risk assessment before increasing security for senior officials

JOHANNESBURG - The City of Joburg is still to provide evidence of a risk assessment from the South African Police Service before increasing security for senior city officials.

This comes after a ruling by the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday, which declared the metro's VIP protection policy unconstitutional.

The court found the city did not provide a risk assessment to justify why the mayor required 10 bodyguards and a fleet of six vehicles.

Mayoral spokesperson, Chris Vondo, has not confirmed whether the risk assessment was conducted prior to the decision being made.

"The public safety department does these constant assessments in terms of these issues. I will have to go back to the records of decisions to check if that report was provided to the mayoral committee."