Kloof SAPS needs a face-lift

THE Kloof Community Police Forum encourages residents to join forces to help upgrade its prefabbed satellite station.

The Kloof CPF has raised funds through community initiatives during the last few years and have decided to fund the repairs to the captains’s office, but requested the Kloof community to assist with all the other projects so that they can make the station a place the police would be proud to work at.

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Nikki Mohlmann, the Kloof CPF chair, said the Kloof satellite station has been around for the last 15 years. A prefab with new toilets was installed there just two years ago, but has already become moldy, similar to the charge office and boardroom.

The Department of Education allowed the Kloof SAPS to rent a space on their property to run their satellite station for a minimal fee.

There are three prefab containers which make up the charge office, captain’s office and boardroom/meeting room, and the toilets.

They also need another container to accommodate the fingerprint department, the LRCR.

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She said the Kloof CPF was relaunched at an AGM in March and a new committee was elected.

Mohlmann was elected as the chair and she has a new vision for the CPF to work with the community.

“We took a unanimous vote to use the funds raised for the station through previous CPF fund-raisers for the upkeep of the satellite station. Malcolm Shallcross, one of the Kloof patrollers who also runs his own construction company, has kindly offered to repair and renovate the station commander, Captain Bheki Mpungose’s, office. However, there are still many other projects that the community can help with,” said Mohlmann.

She is appealing to the community for finances towards their projects to help maintain the current buildings (prefabs), tar the driveway, place new flooring throughout the prefab offices, strip ceilings which are moldy and rotten and replace them in all the prefabs (meeting room, captains office and a potential new trauma room), eight lockers for staff, and chairs for the meeting room.

“We also desperately need a cleaner once a week and a garden service monthly,” said Mohlmann.

Police at the Kloof station say that Pinetown is kept neat and tidy by cleaning staff, something that the Kloof satellite station does not have on a regular basis.

“It’s not rocket science that if staff and police are in a healthy happy environment, then they will be able to do their job more efficiently.

l If there’s anyone in the community who can assist the Kloof CPF to fulfill its vision for the satellite police station this year, they can contact Nikki Mohlmann on 061 582 1903 or e-mail: nixmohlmann@gmail.com

View photos in the gallery below, of the current state of the Kloof SAPS satellite station.

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