40% of police stations don’t answer, have faulty numbers - DA
The Democratic Alliance says around 40% of police stations it called in a snap survey do not answer calls on time, or have faulty numbers.
The party's been studying the time it takes police to answer emergency calls.
It called 270 police stations.
Operations in the Eastern Cape were fingered as the worst.
It says eighteen out of 30 stations don't have working landlines, while some stations didn't pick up calls.
"Shockingly, only 44% of the 270 SAPS stations around SA that the DA phoned answered their phones at all," says DA's shadow minister of police Andrew Whitfield.
"Most worryingly, 40% of these 270 SAPS stations had faulty numbers or were not operable and the remaining 15% did not even answer their phones after 2 minutes of ringing.
"This means that desperate people in urgent need of their local police are being left to fend for themselves.”
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