Police Declare War On Crime, Road Fatalities

After a week-long conference for senior police officers in Gaborone, police resolved that investigators in armed robbery cases, where vast sums of money are stolen from business people in their homes, should engage other stakeholders such as the Botswana Unified Revenue Services (BURS), and check for other possible offences like money laundering, illegal immigration, fraud and others.

The use of explosives to commit serious crimes such as robbery and blasting of ATMs has also attracted the attention of the police who have called for the review of the Explosives Act to make it easy for them to identify the source of the explosives used by criminals. The stop-question-and-search strategy is said not to be yielding enough fruits and it will be improved.