By failing to resolve police inefficiencies, government ensures that women continue to live in unsafe and often deadly environments
Ntebaleng Morake, Khensani Motileni, Thandokazi George and Nomathemba MasemulaLittle has changed since the release of the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry report on August 25, 2014, which contained 20 recommendations made by commissioners Kate O’Regan and Vusi Pikoli to resolve policing inefficiencies and improve the relationship between police and the people of Khayelitsha.
It is important to note that a call for visible policing in informal settlements is a call for policing that works for the people it serves. This means ensuring militarism, xenophobia, gender bias and other multilayered forms of exclusion and discrimination are permanently removed from policing practices. Had these guidelines been implemented as was recommended by the commission, the mounting list of crime victims would not be deprived of justice, at the very least.
In 2016 the Social Justice Coalition , Nyanga Community Policing Forum and Equal Education launched an application SA 82 This recommendation states that the three Khayelitsha police stations had difficulty complying with the obligations imposed upon them by both the Domestic Violence Act and the Protection from Harassment Act. As a result, women felt that the police in Khayelitsha treated domestic violence as a private, rather than criminal, matter. It is easy to single out individual police service members who do this, but it is clear that this response cannot be read outside of systemic analysis.
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