Poor working conditions for police in crime-ridden Umlazi in spotlight as top brass pledge to help

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Police in Umlazi southwest of Durban are making inroads in the fight against gender-based violence despite a shortage of resources - which will be addressed before the end of the year.

Cele said a shortage of police officers was a national challenge and all of the country's police stations were undermanned. He blamed that on those who had succeeded him as police commissioner after his exit in 2012.

Busani Ngcobo, from Bhekithemba police station, asked for officers from outside Umlazi to be deployed in the township in December when police trainees currently in colleges are placed. “The access of the police stations is not necessarily the issue of the police. They are built by the department of public works. The money that we roll over the most, that we fail to spend as police, is the money to build police stations because public works don’t build them for us. So understand your government and fight the right people,” he said.

“We are supposed to have at least 80% of police vehicles being serviced at a government garage and 20% in private garages but unfortunately it’s the other way round because of resource challenges. But we are buying some critical equipment that the garage didn’t have,” he said. “Prisons are overpopulated by 33%. Those people did not volunteer to go there, they were arrested by police officers.

 

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