Gender-based violence complaints hit 87,000 so far in lockdown, as cop arrested for allegedly raping wife 21daylockdownSA COVID19SA
Bheki Cele says the police have been inundated with complaints about domestic violence. For breaking the lockdown regulations, 17,209 people had been arrested, mostly in the Western Cape.Police minister Bheki Cele on Thursday confirmed that seven days into lockdown, police had received more than 87,000 gender-based violence complaints.
Addressing journalists on Thursday evening, Cele said the police would enforce the revised regulations as signed and gazetted by co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.“It’s serious, no doubt about it. If I’m not mistaken, the last number we received is that 87,000 people have phoned to report gender-based violence in the household.
“There’s one case that I want to make here, of one police [officer] that has been charged for rape. What is not said is that he is a husband of the victim and she opened the case. He has been arrested,” Cele said. The police ministry on Friday disclosed that the Western Cape and Free State had recorded the most arrests of lockdown offenders.
“What has been a dampener since the beginning of the lockdown has been the consistently high number of people arrested for violating the lockdown regulations,” Cele said, citing 2,298 arrests just on March 30. By close of business on March 31, the total sum of arrests had reached more than 17,000 since the lockdown started.
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