Cele: SAPS must increase visibility 'even after BRICS Summit'
Police Minister Bheki Cele has given the officers tasked with protecting the BRICS Summit their marching orders.
Delegates from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will take part in the meeting in Sandton starting on Tuesday.
Statesmen from other countries, particularly in Africa, have also been invited.
Cele addressed an operational parade of officers at Innesfree Park in Sandton on Monday, telling them to take the magnitude of the event seriously.
He said the increase in police visibility around the country is not only because of the summit.
"We have been doing this job far before this event, but this operation Shanele won't end there when BRICS is long gone and forgotten.
"We will continue with the operation, as you have seen. So the question of us doing this for BRICS, we can't deny it, we have up the levels and out game, and we have been there all the time and long after BRICS."
