On the 11th of January 2024, Colonel Khumbulani Ndaba graced the Daveyton SAPS station with his presence as the newly appointed station commander of the Daveyton SAPS.
Colonel Ndaba has been on the police force since 1991, where he started working as a student constable at Estcort police station in KZN. He was then deployed to work at Oudtshoorn Public Order Policing for a few months and in 1992, he was transferred to Nuffield Public Order Policing in Gauteng where he started working with the rank of a constable to the rank of a captain for 13 years.
In 2005 he was then promoted to a rank of superintendent which is now changed to a rank of a Lieutenant Colonel, as a Vispol Commander at Boksburg SAPS. He worked at Boksburg Saps as a Vispol Commander for 15 years where he also acted as the station Commander in the absence of the station Commander.
In 2020 he was then promoted to the rank of Colonel and transferred to Benoni Saps as the Vispol Commander where he would also act as the station Commander in the absence of the actual station Commander.
Ndaba is determined to bring change in terms of crime:
- Conduct more arrests of known suspects.
- Increase police Visibility in the area.
- Reduce contact crimes -property crimes
- engage more with the community to address crime situations.
- Improve service delivery.
- Improve sector crime forum Communication.
- Work together with the community to address the violent crimes happening in the families.
- Conduct weekly operations to mitigate crime.
- Build an informer network for information.
Colonel Ndaba hopes to reduce the levels of crime affecting Daveyton, to keep the community of Daveyton safe and protected from perpetrators.
By SImphiwe Nkosi
