{"id":51994,"date":"2023-06-19T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/vredenburg-se-polisie-geprys-20230614-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:18:43","slug":"vredenburg-se-polisie-geprys-20230614-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/vredenburg-se-polisie-geprys-20230614-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vredenburg se polisie geprys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vredenburg-polisiekantoor staan uit tussen polisiekantore in die Weskus nadat verskeie kantore verlede week verras is met \u2019n onverwagse besoek van die Wes-Kaapse minister van polisie-oorsig en gemeenskapsveiligheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Marcellino Martin, woordvoerder vir minister Reagen Allen, is daar op Maandag 5 en Dinsdag 6 Junie onaangekondigde besoeke by verskeie polisiekantore, waaronder Vredenburg, afgel\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen het na afloop van die besoek ges\u00ea hy was aangenaam verras toe hulle om 05:45 by die Vredenburg-polisiekantoor aankom en kapt. Jaco Kruger, skofbevelvoerder, saam met al sy operasionele beamptes kry, almal reeds vir diens aangemeld. Hul skof begin eers om 06:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen het ges\u00ea dat hy Kruger bedank het vir die professionele wyse waarop hy die parade gelei het. \u201cKruger verpersoonlik wat skofbevelvoerders tydens hierdie parades m\u00f3\u00e9t doen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kol. Lindie Marx, stasiebevelvoerder by die Vredenburg-polisiekantoor, het ges\u00ea hulle streef daarna om di\u00e9 kantoor meer professioneel te maak en aan te hou om dienslewering te verbeter. \u201cDeur mense soos kaptein Kruger, word ons lede op hul tone gehou.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die onaangekondigde besoeke volg n\u00e1 die onlangse aankondiging van misdaadstatistieke asook gerugte dat sekere polisiekantore in die Weskus nie hul oggend- en middagparades volgens die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens se standaard bedryfsprosedures (SOP) uitvoer nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin het verduidelik dat wanneer beamptes vir diens aanmeld, die skof\u00adbevelvoerder \u2019n streng bedryfsprosedure moet volg, wat insluit die hou van \u2019n parade waar operasionele lede hul take ontvang en op hoogte van sake gebring moet word. Daar moet ook verseker word dat \u201cbeamptes nugter en netjies is\u201d, hul polisie-uniforms aan het en oor die nodige en vereiste toerusting beskik. Die voorvalleboek moet nagegaan word en \u2019n inspeksie van vuurwapens moet gedoen word. Alle inligting wat die vorige skof verkry het, moet oorgedra word. Lede moet na afloop van die parade presies weet wat hul pligte en\/of plasings is en wat van hulle verwag word. Spesifieke inligting oor patrolliegebiede moet oorgedra word en die aanhouding\u00adselle moet ge\u00efnspekteer word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ongelukkig was van die skof\u00adbevelvoerders by ander polisiekantore in die omgewing \u201cnie so stiptelik nie en het al die polisiebeamptes nie vir diens aangemeld nie. Diegene wat wel vir diens aangemeld het, het dit gedoen nadat hul skof al moes begin het,\u201d het Allen ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die hulpbrontekorte by die St. Helenabaai-polisiekantoor het Allen opgeval en hy het sy kommer uitgespreek oor die polisiebeampte-tot-bevolking-verhouding van di\u00e9 kantoor wat op een beampte vir elke 498 inwoners neerkom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit is kommerwekkend, veral aangesien dit een van die kleiner dorpies langs die Weskus is,\u201d het Allen ges\u00ea. Verder het hy genoem dat daar dringend gekyk moet word na kritieke instandhouding aan dele van die gebou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen het onderneem om luit.-genl. 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