250 New Metro Officers to Be Deployed to the JHB CBD to Enforce the Informal Trading PolicyPosted by MMP News AuthorOn June 12, 2022

• The Department of Economic Development has given the green light for 250 new Johannesburg Metro Police Officers
• The additional manpower would primarily be used to enforce the city’s new Informal Trading Policy which will give priority to South African traders
• Foreign traders will not be banned from the CBD and a digital trading permit system will be introduced

JOHANNESBURG – 250 New Johannesburg Metro Police Officers will soon be walking the streets of the CBD after the Department of Economic Development sponsored the additional manpower.

The officer’s primary role will be to enforce the city’s newly implemented Informal Trading Policy which is set to change the way traders operate in the city centre.

Johannesburg will not ban foreign traders from the CBD but has created the policy to give South African traders preference according to eNCA.

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The city has also announced that it will be launching a digital trading permit system and is in the process of appointing an Informal Trading Stakeholder Committee according to the Daily Sun.

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