Gauteng Premier candidate Solly Msimanga says he made some shocking findings at the Honeydew police station.
Thapelo Morebudi
High crime rates, under-resourced and short-staffed. These are some of the findings of former Tshwane mayor and the DA's candidate for premier of Gauteng, Solly Msimanga, after a visit to the Honeydew police station.High crime rates The station handles more than 23,000 cases of crime and has the most residential robberies, sexual abuse and hijacking cases. Msimanga said the station has 80 vehicles, which is not enough as the station covers a large community, including Cosmo City and Zandspruit informal settlement. Making the situation even worse, he said, the informal settlement does not have tarred roads, making it difficult to access.Twenty-nine police officers resigned in 2015, which left the station with 341 officers.
"We are living in a country where violence against women and children is so common that it is almost an everyday thing, yet some police refuse to open a case against the
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