KwaZulu-Natal Deputy Police Commissioner Phumelele Makhoba says district commissioners will be tasked with ensuring that mobile stations are adequately staffed.

Makhoba spoke during the handover of four mobile police stations, which will be strategically placed in communities.

The areas include Inanda, KwaMakhutha, Bulwer and KwaMbonambi.

Inanda has the highest number of rape cases in the country.

Makhoba says, “These mobile CSCs (Community Service Centre) are going to certain stations that the Premier has announced and they are falling within certain districts, and the district commissioners will make it a point that they make human resources available for these mobile CSCs to function.”

She says, “That basically means that district commissioners have a prerogative and have control of all human resources within the district. If it means taking members from one station to another station in order to ensure that all communities receive services.”

Advanced technology

The chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal Community Policing Forum, Mabutho Mtshali, says vehicles fitted with advanced technology will also be of great assistance in communities where people live very far from police stations.

Matshali says, “We as the structures of the community, safety structures in particular, we’ve been talking to the Premier, to the provincial commissioner especially with the problem that we are experiencing as the community, because some of our communities are staying very far from the police stations, as well as the large number of people that are reporting cases at the police station. So having mobile stations is going to assist us a lot as the community because people will be able to go and report cases.”

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