Berea, Jan 24 — As festive season crime prevention campaigns ends, Berea Police Station has recorded a sharp decline of murder cases accounting to four lives lost as opposed to the previous year whereby 14 murder cases were reported.
When approached for a comment, the District Commissioner of Police (DISPOL) Senior Superintendent (Snr Supt) Kabelo Halahala said last year Berea district shocked the nation as it saw a surge in gun violence and gangs related brutal killings which claimed lives of people some months before the festive season.
Snr Supt. Halahala said surprisingly, ever since they launched their festive season crime prevention campaign on December 09 until they wrapped it up on January 10, they only received the report of four murder cases.
He further said among such murder cases recorded, only one of them seems to be a planned murder, whereby it was discovered that the victim was ambushed by the attackers while walking at night.
DISPOL stressed that the other murder case took place at Ha-Mamathe, where it was influenced by a fight for a girl at the public bar which ended up with one life lost as a result of a gun. . .
