1.
LV POLICE WATCHING PEDESTRIANS WALK PAST
0.03

2.
SV POLICE PASSING
0.07

3.
SV POLICEMEN CHECKING PASS OF PEDESTRIAN
0.11

4.
CU DITTO
0.15

5.
SV PEDESTRIANS BEING QUESTIONED
0.19

6.
SV ANOTHER PEDESTRIAN HAVING PASS CHECKED
0.24

7.
SV PAN.. POLICEMEN ON SIDEWALK
0.27

8.
SV POLICEMEN CHECKING PASSES (2 SHOTS)
0.34

9.
SV TWO POLICEMEN
0.38

10.
SV POLICE CHECKING BOOT OF CAR
0.44

11.
SV POLICEMAN SEARCHING TWO MEN
0.50

12.
SV & CU RICKSHAW BEING STOPPED
0.55

13.
BV TWO POLICEMEN
0.58

14.
SV MAN BEING SEARCHED IN STREET
1.02



Initials RGM/V/JH/SA



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Background: HUNDREDS OF POLICEMEN SWOOPED ON JOHANNESBURG STREETS ON FRIDAY (7TH JANUARY) TO START A MAMMOTH DRIVE THAT IS AIMED AT STAMPING OUT CRIME IN THE CITY. PEOPLE WERE ASKED TO PRODUCE THEIR IDENTITY CARDS AND SEARCHED.

HARDLY A STREET CORNER IN THE CITY CENTRE WAS WITHOUT POLICE OFFICERS MAKING CHECKS. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.

THE DRIVE FOLLOWS POLICE WARNINGS AT THE END OF LAST YEAR THAT THEY WERE ABOUT TO EMBARK ON AN ALL-OUT WAR ON THE CITY CRIME RATE.

A SIMILAR SWOOP ON ONE POLICE DIVISION IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS OF 1965 WAS REPORTED TO HAVE RESULTED IN THE NUMBER OF ARMED ROBBERIES DROPPING FROM 80 TO 25 A MONTH.

JOHANNESBURG PEOPLE HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE LEVEL OF THE CITY'S CRIME RATE.