JP Smith: City of Cape Town has a contingency plan in case of terror attacks

The statement from the embassy warned of a potential attack on the weekend of 29-30 October in the greater Sandton area.

They said there was no further information at that stage on the target, timing, or method of this attack.

Smith said that the city does have a disaster contingency plan to deal with terror threats and he said that around eight weeks ago the city adopted a framework to address potential violent extremism.

He said that as local government, they were attempting to become increasingly prepared for any of these potential threats.

Alderman JP Smith, mayoral committee member for Safety and Security at the City of Cape Town:

If something were to happen, we have a contingency plan for that. We would activate the disaster operation centre and run that DOC with multi-agency support to respond.

-EWN

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