Joburg emergency services attacks: These are the hotspots
The City of Johannesburg has identified six hotspots where emergency services and personnel are being attacked.
Emergency services entering Alexandra, the CBD, Cosmo City, Matholeville, Orange Farm and Doornkop will from now on be escorted by the police when responding to calls.
Johannesburg metro police chief David Tembe says officers will escort emergency services between 22:00 and 06:00, as those times have been identified as 'high-risk'.
There have been at least ten incidents where emergency services personnel have been assaulted, attacked or hijacked since the start of the year.
The most recent took place in the early hours of Sunday morning, when two emergency workers were robbed of their belongings in Dobsonville.
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Its alleged the two paramedics were responding to a domestic incident when gunmen opened the ambulance door and robbed the crew.
"We are committed as the JMPD public safety to ensure that all these things that have been happening. We will put our foot down to ensure that it does not happen again," said Tembe.