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All SA police stations now have rape kits, Bheki Cele tells MPs

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Rape kits are used by police to gather DNA evidence when probing sexual offences.

Responding to a question from DA MP Andrew Whitfield on Wednesday in the National Assembly, Cele said all police stations around the country now had rape kits.

"All provinces have no single police station that is minus the kits at the present moment," declared Cele."We had said on October 12 all stations would have. Indeed, not all police stations did. Most of these kits were taken to FCS [family violence, child protection and sexual offences] units." Cele said he was confident that SAPS would not encounter a shortage of rape kits in the next three years, as a contract covering that period had been signed with a supplier.

"I'm not sure about 'never again', but the measure that we've put in place is that we've signed a three-year agreement of supply going forward. At least we know that we have three years where there will be no shortage, where we have enough space to work ... so that this problem that happened does not repeat."

 

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