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out two weeks ago.
City spokesperson Mr Leslie Gwindi yesterday announced the elaborate programme to “bring back sanity” into Harare at a Press conference.
He said the deployed staff would comprise personnel from the traffic enforcement unit, municipal police and ZRP.
Mr Gwindi said they delayed in deploying personnel because of consultations with stakeholders, including law enforcement agents.
“We needed to enlist their support. We believe a lot of the cases had gone beyond our municipal duties,” he said.
“Anybody who does not live within the law will not operate.”
The officers have been deployed at Charge Office, Copacabana, Market Square, Fourth Street, Rezende South, Chinhoyi Street, Mbuya Nehanda, Kwame Nkrumah/Mbuya Nehanda and Kwame Nkrumah and Park Street.
Council has since impounded 600 kombis that were operating without valid documents.
A storage fee of US$17 per day is charged on uncollected vehicles.
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The operator has to pay an admission of guilt fine of US$20 to the police to secure the release of an impounded vehicle.
Council also charges US$132 in clamping and towing fees.
The deployment at ranks, running under the code name “Nguva Yakwana”, would be welcomed by commuters who had suffered the brunt of rowdy touts and rank marshals.
Mr Gwindi said kombis without road service permits, rank discs, vehicle licences and route permits will be impounded.
He said council will soon erect boom gates at all the designated ranks.
Close to two thirds of the city’s 6 000 kombis are not licensed, do not pay the annual US$300 rank disc fees and ply unauthorised routes.
Mr Gwindi said Harare would tow away the vehicles and use spikes in cases where the drivers decide to flee.
He said council was still preparing the parking bay along Coventry Road that would be used by commuter omnibuses from the western suburbs.
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