Kwa-Thema – The partitions of the Kwa-Thema Police Station are holding on by a thread, and residents demand pressing motion from the federal government. On Tuesday morning, residents from Ward 74 staged a silent protest exterior the police station.
“The police station has fallen into complete disarray. It’s barely functioning. The officers are working underneath horrible situations the place well being and security are marginal,” mentioned Lorna Beharie, the PR councillor for Ward 74.
Officers have needed to transfer from the principle elements of the constructing to work within the cafeteria as a result of the roof was collapsing.
The station additionally has no holding cells due to the failing roof. When it rains, a lot of the constructing will get drenched, leaving some to concern electrocution.
“And none of that is new,” she added.
The South African Human Rights Fee confirmed the station isn’t protected. In 2017, the Division of Labour submitted a report the police station was unsafe for workers to occupy.
In January, the Ekurhuleni council agreed to provide land to construct a brand new police station in Kwa-Thema. On the council assembly in Germiston, all political events backed the ANC’s plan to provide the land the place the previous station stands to the police.
Due to the urgency of the matter, it was purported to be accomplished on the finish of February, however the land was not but allotted.
“We’ve all these fantastic plans and possibly faux to care, however they do nothing,” she mentioned.
Ruan Robertson, a DA member of the provincial legislature, mentioned the Kwa-Thema Police Station is without doubt one of the worst he has visited.
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“One of many horror tales I heard is that when the officers must cost somebody, they’ve to sit down in entrance of them within the cost workplace.
“In a single incident, an accused man might seize the officer’s gun, as he was sitting behind the officer, and held the officer hostage together with her personal gun,” he defined.
Each time the officers make arrests in Kwa-Thema, they’ve to move the detainees to different police stations as a result of there aren’t any holding cells to maintain them.
Moreover, the non permanent cell places of work, meant to deal with the detectives, had been vandalised in 2020, and solely a shadow of a construction stays.
It’s straightforward to see the solar in most elements of the constructing.
Residents from Ward 74 staged a silence protest exterior the police station.
The principle entrance of the Kwa-Thema Police Station has been sealed for years.
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