Not a cop in sight at ‘ghost’
SA police station
A new video has been
posted by Facebook user Andre Botha, showing how an active South African police
station has been left open with no police officers in sight.
The video shows what appears
to be Assen police station in Brits, North West Province, standing empty with
no police in any of the rooms, despite the station having people inside waiting
to be assisted.
In the brief tour, the
camera person describes in Afrikaans that the radio and telephones are not
being attended to, and quips that they could just pop in and “steal a few
guns”.
Earlier in July, the
premises of the national crime intelligence unit were broken into by thieves
who made off with a safe and guns.
The South African Police
Service has come under scrutiny in recent months following reports of millions
of rands being wasted on an unused station in Diepsloot, Gauteng.
The station is
estimated to cost over R100 million, yet remains empty and incomplete.
You can see the video
below.
Here is the original
video from Facebook, as posted by user, Andre Botha.
