Nellmapius residents demand mobile police station
Residents expressed lack of trust for the Silverton police by the residents and demanded that the area is big desperately need a police station as soon as possible.
Hundreds of residents from Nellmapius, east of Pretoria, marched to the Silverton police station on Saturday to deliver a memorandum demanding that more be done to curb drug dealing and crime in the community.
In the memorandum, residents expressed a lack of trust in the Silverton police and demanded their own police station “as soon as possible”.
Residents marched from Nellmapius Multi-purpose centre to Silverton carying placards with messages against drugs and drugs dealers in the community.
Among the marchers were ward 86 councillor Thabo Ntlatheng and Sanco chairman in Nellmapius Patrick Mathibela.
Residents also expressed concern about police allegedly taking bribes from the drug dealers, and the unavailability of police vehicles when a crime was reported.
Ntlatheng accused the police of not doing enough to get dealers behind bars.
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“Taverns allowing drug dealers to operate on their premises must be closed down.”
Mathibela said drug dealers were operating with impunity in the area, and that residents and police “knew where the drug dens are”.
“Why are they not being arrested?”
They demanded that people who were buying and selling stolen goods be arrested.
Mathebula said criminals were stealing from the community and selling some of the stolen goods to the scrap yards. Such businesses must be closed down.
“Nellmapius High School should be visited by the police regularly to check learners selling drugs or using drugs.”
Mathibela said crime will be not be solved as long as Nellmapius did not have its own police station. He said residents demanded a mobile police station because Nellmapius was growing fast and more houses were being built.
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Residents demanded answers within seven working days.
Silverton police station commander Colonel Karel Swanepoel accepted the memorandum and promised them he would look into their demands.
“We must not fight with each other, we must fight against the criminals. We urge community members to provide us with information about corrupt police officers and drug dealers and we will deal with them,” said Swanepoel.
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