Police stations a beacon of hope for abused women - Cele
Police Minister Bheki Cele has urged cops to stop advising women reporting gender-based violence cases to negotiate with their attackers.
Cele was speaking during the first ever Imbizo YamaDoda in Khayelitsha on Monday.
The programme is aimed at curbing the scourge of GBVF in the Western Cape.
The Nyanga police station in Cape Town ranks first for contact crime in South Africa.
Cele said police stations are supposed to be a beacon of hope.
“Police officers, I’ve said this time and time again and I will repeat it, when a woman comes to the police station to report that she is being abuse that’s her last hope. Help her, do not send her anywhere else.
“She has come to the station don’t tell her to go and negotiate with her abuser, please help that woman, you are her last hope.
“Management, deal with young police who abuse our woman further by turning them away, they supposed to take the statement and go arrest that person.”
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