As the coronavirus continues to spread like wildfire, police stations across the country temporarily shut down to help curb the spread and to allow for stations to be sanitised.
But members at the Cape Town Central police station allege that although large numbers of members test positive, the station remains open.
Two police at the Vryheid police station and two at the Umbilo police station in Durban were infected. The Boksburg police station was also shut down after another police tested positive. Other police stations which closed due to positive cases over the last two days include Rustenberg, Diepsloot, Kimberley, Parkweg, Charles Cilliers, Florida, Bedfordview, Kroonstad, Allanridge and Middleburg.
An officer at the police station, who also spoke to Weekend Argus under anonymity, said: “There must be more than 40 people at the station who have tested positive, every day there’s a new case and every day we make the same requests, but they fall on deaf ears. Added a clerk: “Decontaminate the station, remove all those who are positive and rotate those with co-morbidities, rather than have them working full shifts with healthy people. This is a recipe for disaster, this station is not adhering to the Covid-19 regulations.”
“It would be difficult to give a figure, as employees test all the time depending on their exposure to infected cases on and off work. At regular intervals, the SAPS collates figures of infected members. The latest figures by the minister of police reflected just over 1 000 employees,” she said.
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