Police and homeless people, drug users and sex workers who face one another in unpleasant circumstances out on the streets have been able to connect with one another at a meeting facilitated by visiting police officers from the US.
“A group of police officials from the US were recently in Durban to report on the effectiveness of strategies that address under-lying problems rather than just bluntly enforcing the law,” according to the Denis Hurley Centre, a partner in the project along with eThekwini Municipality, DUT Urban Futures Centre, TB/HIV Care and the Sphephelo organisation that is involved in the welfare of girls and young women in Durban.
“One of the main problems that homeless people in Durban face is the impact of law enforcement, whether by metro police, SAPS or private security firms,” said a statement from the centre. Meanwhile, on the legal front, for the past two years homeless people have been empowered to stand up for themselves by attending sessions on weekend mornings with final year UKZN law students.“It will be no help to tell them to quote ‘this or that section of the law’ but at least set up a system where number plates and ID tags can be recognised,”said Xoliswa Jwili, a law graduate and co-ordinator of the programme for final-year law students.
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