Minister of Police opens newly-renovated Yeoville Police Station
YEOVILLE - The Minister of Police, Nkosinathi Nhleko, recently opened the newly-renovated Yeoville Police Station and urged the community to make full use of its facilities.
The police station underwent a major transformation from a four-roomed Hillbrow satellite station to a fully-fledged station which will now service the Yeoville community.
It has among its many services, a detective crime centre, community service centre, victim empowerment centre, holding cells that can take up to 50 people at a time and a gym. It is the first police station in Gauteng to be opened as part of the Front-line Service Delivery (FSD) project.
FSD is a project which supports the government and its public institutions with accessibility, user-friendly and quality service delivery to communities.
Addressing the public, Nhleko noted that the reopening of Yeoville Police Station was happening a day after the release of the Victims of Crime Survey by Statistics SA.
“Constructing a police station is a direct response to the need to have citizens who are safe and feel safe. What this means is that we have to accelerate delivery of this infrastructure to as many people as possible because we have evidence that police stations add to the feeling of safety and they improve police visibility in the area, thereby decreasing some of the crimes which cause debilitating fear,” he said.
MEC for Community Safety in Gauteng, Sizakele Nkosi Malobane, urged police officers to use the police station to help protect the community of Yeoville. “Let us use these facilities to make sure our communities receive services when it comes to responding to [reported] crime. Let us also be proactive officers by patrolling the streets of Yeoville and making sure our people are as safe as possible,” said Malobane.
LISTEN: MEC for Community Safety in Gauteng, Sizakele Nkosi Malobane urges police to make use of the services at their disposal:
