Cape Town Mayor offers city's support to block cellphone signals at Pollsmoor Prison

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has offered technical and logistical support to correctional services authorities to have signal-blocking technology installed at prisons in the metro.

The Mayor has expressed concern about some inmates using cell phones to orchestrate illegal activity while behind bars.

He said the City has received various reports that crime and extortion activity is being coordinated by phone from Pollsmoor Prison.

"This shows we must do more than just jail criminals, we have to prevent their ability to continue to run their organised crime syndicates from within the prison walls. That's why we’ve offered the city's full support for the minister to install signal jamming blockers for cell phones at Pollsmoor."