Mbalula must step out of his Twitter universe and prioritise fixing SAPS
6 November 2017
The DA’s visit to the Boitekong and Phokeng police stations in the North West province today showed a reflection of the common picture of severe under-resourcing that exists at station level around South Africa in general and the Boitekong station in particular.
The Boitekong police station operates in an area with a very high murder rate and insufficient rural safety, and is increasingly struggling to police the precinct in the context of growing informal settlements and extreme poverty.
Our main observations of the Boitekong police station were that:
- It is clearly overdue for expansion and upgrade, having been upgraded from a satellite station to a fully-fledged station in 1992;