Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the City’s law enforcement officers regularly put their own lives at risk to protect fellow Capetonians from crime and violence.
Hill-Lewis on Saturday paid his respects to the City officials who lost their lives, in the performance of their duties and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said law enforcement is sometimes a dangerous occupation and thanked officials for working hard to keep residents safe.
A wreath-laying ceremony was attended by relatives of those staff members who have died in the line of duty and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The City of Cape Town’s annual Remembrance Day service is held in honour of fallen staff members across the enforcement and emergency services.
The inaugural event was hosted in 2017 when the Safety and Security Directorate’s memorial wall at the Cape Town Civic Centre was first unveiled.
The memorial features five silhouettes representing the departments within the Safety and Security Directorate: Metro Police, Traffic Services, Law Enforcement, the Fire and Rescue Service, and Disaster Risk Management – along with a list of names of those in whose memory it has been erected.
It contains the names of 36 staff members who have died in the line of duty and 26 who succumbed to Covid-19.
Read Hill-Lewis’ full statement here.
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Today we honoured the sacrifices made by our dedicated Safety & Security officers, both those no longer with us and those still serving.
They put their lives at risk to make our city a safer place and for this we thank them and their families. https://t.co/Tp9FbseTja pic.twitter.com/aFMtdJLPH0
— Geordin Hill-Lewis (@geordinhl) August 6, 2022
