10111 hotline failing in its duty

SADLY, the delay by the 10111 police radio control room related to the murder of Edda Botha of Umbogintwini, made no difference to whether the well-known dog trainer and much-loved grandmother lived or died in the early hours of Saturday morning, 16 November.
Her death came at the hands of barbaric criminals who obviously have very little humanity coursing through their veins.
However, had the response by the authorities been that much swifter, her murderer may have been netted that same day. That tragic fact is almost unforgivable.
In the face of such a terrible loss, Botha’s family must grapple with the sheer lunacy of her murder. A defenceless woman, she could not have offered much resistance to their criminal intent, and they could easily have locked her away while they looted the home.
The family’s pain can only be assuaged by the swift resolution of this horrendous murder. And that resolution would have been set in motion on the very day she died, had the 10111 police hotline relayed the vital information that a murder had taken place, within minutes of being notified of it.
What went wrong, we’ll probably never know. If the policing authorities continue to allow such misdeeds to take place without accountability and a serious commitment to rectifying such errors when they do happen, there will only be more of the same in the future.