Completed in 2014, this police station has never been used

[schumi]

.A new police station in Moeka Village north of Pretoria is standing empty while the community struggles with crime.

When the construction of Moeka-Vuma police station in the North West’s Moretele District Municipality started in 2013, the community hoped that the crime rate in the area would decline.

But the police station, which was completed in 2014, has never been used. The paint on the walls is peeling off. Some of the windows are broken and weeds are growing on the pavement.

The village’s Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairperson Abel Kubai (69) says the most common crimes in the village are house break-ins, robberies and assaults. “I work very closely with the police, and I can tell you that we wouldn’t be having this challenge of crime in our community if Moeka-Vuma police station was working,” Kubai said.

“Early this year my family and I were robbed at gunpoint at home by thugs who made away with around R2,000 and four cellphones,” he said.

More at https://www.groundup.org.za/article/completed-2014-moeka-vuma-police-station-has-never-been-used/

 

[Milano]

Government: Community demanded a police station. They never mentioned staff and such.

 

[ɹǝuuᴉM]

Let me guess: the ANC dignitaries stole the money which was supposed to be paid to the policemen.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Hopefully built on the cheap, it's a brilliant plan really, visual deterrent and something to burn down when the savages get rowdy again.

 

[grok]

If they struggle with crime, they must just ask, there's a government and a whole lot of ANC votahs that can show them stealing, looting, burning, armed robbery, xenophobia etc. No shortage of mentors for crime at all in this country.

 

[ɹǝuuᴉM]

Hopefully built on the cheap, it's a brilliant plan really, visual deterrent and something to burn down when the savages Orcs get rowdy again.

FTFU For some dignitaries, the word "savage" is racist!