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Approval of land for additional police station in PE Northern Areas welcomed

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Dear MyPE

The DA welcomes the approval by the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro council today (subs: 23 Feb 2017) for land to be allocated in Bloemendal for an additional police station in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth.

The fight against gangsterism in the Northern Areas must be treated as a war and every resource available needs to be harnessed. The SAPS must now prioritise and expedite the building of this station.

I will be submitting legislature questions to the MEC for Safety and Liaison, Weziwe Tikana, for time-frames for the building of this police station.

For four years I have been campaigning for an additional station in that area to alleviate the pressure on the Gelvandale and Bethelsdorp police stations. This process has been a long time coming and under the new DA-led municipality, is gaining momentum.

The DA is passionately committed to the right of all people in the Northern Areas to live in a safe environment. Children should feel free to play where they want and families should go to bed at night knowing they are safe.

The DA will continue to fight for better policing in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth.

Regards

Bobby Stevenson

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  1. An emailed comment:

    Hi Alan,

    It amazes me that politicians involve themselves in things they no nothing about like mentioned in this article.

    First of all these policing matters should be left to the SAPS management in Pretoria and the provincial offices although they themselves are hard pressed to very often understand many aspects of efficient and effective policing.
    The police only try to keep the parliamentary and other political committees happy with knee jerk solutions.

    It’s quite obvious this is the case when one listens in on these committee sittings.

    From my own esperience building another police station only costs money that could be better utilised elsewhere plus it will solve none of the issues it was meant to do.
    Manpower will have to be taken from elsewhere to man it and many of them will be tied up on duplicate administration work, etc.

    Mike.