They are accused of turning away people who had come to report the death of a man who was stabbed in the Mandela informal settlement.
eMbalenhle residents are demanding that three cops at the police station be suspended with immediate effect.
The angry residents marched to the police station to ask that the station suspend two female cops and the head of the crime prevention unit.
They say last week they went to the station to report the murder of a young man who was stabbed by a man they knew in the Mandela informal settlement but on arrival at the police station they found two female constables who told them that they were going off duty and would not be able to assist the complainant, local newspaper Ridge Times reports.
ANC councillor in the area, Masabatha Kubheka, said: “We want these policewomen and the crime prevention head of this station suspended, we have been chased away when we were trying to report a crime”.
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Kubheka said he used his cellphone to call the head of crime prevention several times on Saturday 12 February 2022 and he kept on promising to send police to the scene, but this never happened.
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“People are being killed every weekend in this area,” Kubheka told the media, adding they get murdered as a result of alcohol influence.
Police spokeswoman Constable Busi Mthethwa said the complaints against the two policewomen and the head of crime prevention in Mbalenhle have now been reported to the head of visible policing to take action.
“Also the station commander has been briefed about the matter,” Constable Mthethwa added.
A murder docket has now been opened.
“I request community members to make use of a suggestion box in which they drop written views. Every morning when I open the box, it is empty,” she said, adding that the letters they find inside the suggestion box allow them to improve on the work they do.
(edited by ZK)
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