Mobile SAPS unit remains abandoned in Dunoon

IRATE Dunoon residents have called for a permanent police station after the satellite station was abandoned following its closure.

- GENEVIEVE SERRA

The DA’s National Council of Provinces member on security and justice and constituency head for Atlantis, Blaauwberg and Table View, Nicholas Gotsell, said during a site visit in Killarney Gardens, where the mobile station was placed, that equipment and documentation left behind were accessible to criminals.

“While crime in Dunoon spirals out of control, the DA this week found the local SAPS satellite office completely unattended, unlocked, wide open, and vulnerable to looting or tampering with official documents and equipment. It’s a damning metaphor for the state of policing in the area,” said Gotsell.

“During an oversight visit to the mobile police station, parked near the clinic, the DA uncovered serious failures that explain why residents feel abandoned and unsafe. The so-called ‘Dunoon satellite station’ isn't even located in Dunoon itself, but in neighbouring Killarney Gardens.

“It doesn’t appear on GPS systems, making it nearly impossible for residents to find.