Ensuring safe and inclusive environment Focused on both locals and visitors during festive season Introducing measures to minimise risk to public safety Support domestic and international tourists Operations focused on attractions during summer holiday season Integrated approach to Festive Season Ensuring proactive measures through visible policing

1. FESTIVE SEASON/
HOLIDAY SEASON
PREPAREDNESS

2. Purpose
Ensuring safe and inclusive environment
Focused on both locals and visitors during festive season
Introducing measures to minimise risk to public safety
Support domestic and international tourists
Operations focused on attractions during summer holiday season
Integrated approach to Festive Season
Ensuring proactive measures through visible policing

3. Disaster Risk Management Centre
Deployment of staff and volunteers at beaches and swimming pools
Provide support to lifeguards and law enforcement
Deployment at tourist destinations
Ensure crowd control
Roll-out of IdentiKidz programme at 26 beaches
Public awareness campaign regarding fires, beach safety and
general education.
24/7 Dedicated Festive Season and Tourist Emergency/Hotline
HOTLINE:
021 597 6003 / 080 911 HELP (4357)

4. Law Enforcement and Specialised Services
Collaborating with national provincial police forces
Deployment of Neighbourhood Safety Officers (NSO) at
tourist destinations Citywide
Deployment of 33 Volunteer Axillary Law Enforcement
Officers at tourist destinations
Additional staff to be deployed Citywide to ensure crime
prevention and law enforcement

5. Traffic Services
Roll-Out of Operation Exodus: free vehicle safety checks of busses
and minibus vehicles that will travel on highways reducing road death
toll at following Public Transport Interchanges:
Joe Gqabi
Bellville/Parc Du Cap
Mfuleni
Langa
Du Noon
Cape Town Station
R27 and Epping
Check points and speed checks
Deployment of officers at special events across the City
Free vehicle safety checks for motorists undertaking holidays on
major routes across City and outside Western Cape Province

6. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)
Focusing on:
Driver and vehicle fitness
Drunk driving
Enforcement
Transportation and dealing of illegal narcotics
Focused patrols and deployment at:
Places of entertainment
Routes to and from major shopping centres
Business and residential areas
Combatting property crimes
Visible policing along main routes
Visible policing at popular beaches

7. Fire and Rescue Services
Enhancing operational capacity dealing with increase of
fire emergencies
Deployment of 120 season fire-fighters (Nov – Dec)
24/7 Operationalization of 30 fire stations Citywide
Deployment of 75 reservist fire-fighters
Public awareness campaigns regarding fire safety

8. City Health Services
City clinics to function over Festive Season
Primary Health Care Clinics opened on weekdays
Western Cape Government Community Health Centres (day
hospitals) open on weekdays; weekends and public holidays
City Environmental Health Department and Water and
Sanitation (Scientific Services) monitoring quality of drinking
water and recreational water
Increased monitoring of:
food premises
accommodation establishment
Public facilities
Special Events

9. Solid Waste Management (Cleansing)
R10.5 million budgeted for cleansing
Uninterrupted refuse removal over festive season
2,353 extra cleansing staff appointed
Focused on cleaning in business districts, scenic
routes and beaches

10. Social and Early Childhood Development
Partnering with City’s Displaced People’s Unit and NGOs reducing
people living on streets
Facilitating holistic developmental and integrated approach to working
with street people
Programmes preventing migration of people to streets
Prevention programmes focused on life skills and education

11. Sport, Recreation and Amenities
1,500 holiday programmes running daily (5 December – 15 January
Deployment of 180 temporary play leaders (EPWP) boosting staff
capacity at beaches, swimming pools and play parks
Deployment of 250 trained and accredited lifeguards between 10:00 –
18:00 on beaches.

12. Sport, Recreation and Amenities
Deployment of Lifesaving Western Cape; NSRI and medic helicopter
Beach wheelchairs available at 10 beaches
226 lifeguards at City’s 36 swimming pools
All public pools will be opened between (10:00 – 17:00 daily)
Deployment of 26 shark spotters along False Bay coastline

13. MyCiti
Extending services by 30 minutes (9 – 24
December 2013) (except the Airport route)
31 December: all services extending until 1AM of
the morning of 01 January 2013 (except the Airport
route)
Time tables and route maps available online
www.myciti.org.za
0800 65 64 63

14. Events
Free Public Concert (Grand Parade): 01 December
Switching on of Festive Lights: 01 December (evening)
Cape Town Summer Market: 14 – 30 December
Reconciliation Day Celebrations: 16 December (Fan Walk)
New Year’s Eve Bash: Grand Parade
Tweede Nuwe Jaar Parade: City Centre (04 January)
CHAN 2014 (African Nations Championship): 11 January – 1 February
(City hosting opening and closing ceremonies and Bafana Bafana Home
Base

15. Emergencies