There continues to be a shortages of resources at the Kuruman Police Station that continues to hamper the station’s ability to provide adequate support to victims of gender-based violence.
The shortage ranges from inadequate staffing, insufficient vehicles and little to no office space for the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) unit.
This is wat an oversight inspection by the DA last Thursday to the Kuruman police station revealed.
The FCS unit is allocated to service nine police stations in the John Taolo Gaetsewe area.
Ofentse Mokae, DA MPL in the Northern Cape, says as we continue to observe Women’s Month, we need to ask ourselves if this government is genuinely doing all they can to provide sufficient support to our police officers.
Mokae says even though police officers continue to try to fight crime, their passion and dedication on its own cannot surmount the logistical challenges that they face.
“Instead, this can only be addressed with the necessary political will to adequately equip police stations to be able to efficiently fight the scourge of these heinous crimes, and also treat victims of crime with dignity.”
The DA will, in the upcoming virtual portfolio committee meeting for safety, lobby for the implementation of the Northern Cape Crime Prevention Strategy, which in turn requires SAPS stations to be better equipped, he says.
