Increase in shopping centre robberies

Cowardly violent criminals between Pretoria and Johannesburg have targeted at least eight malls during shopping hours this week alone leaving three people dead, eight injured and twelve suspects arrested.
The Consumer Goods Council is investigating why violent robberies increase between July and August every year.The Council’s Michael Broughton says “This year’s July comes out at 29, so we expecting a bad August as well.” Malls in Centurion, Midrand, Gallor Manor, Killarney, Alberton, Johannesburg south, Lenasia and Pretoria north have seen violent robberies in just the last week.
Business Against Crime has urged customers not to panic. Security patrols have been intensified in various shopping centres across the country and the SAPS have agreed to increase their focus on protection of shopping centres.