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MOWBRAY NEWS

 

Recently four Victim Supporters working at the Mowbray SAPS Victim Support Room successfully completed a four week course in handling rape victims. The course was presented by Rape Crisis. Fltr: Insp Arthur Minnaar (Victim Empowerment Coordinator), Lucky Moliko, Estelle Moses and Bill Balmbro (Victim Support Coordinator).
 

MOWBRAY CATERS FOR DISABLED
 

The Victim Support Room of the SAPS in Mowbray has a new wheelchair ramp. The ramp was donated and installed by the University of Cape Town to make the Victim Support Room more accessible for the disabled and the elderly. The SAPS in Mowbray currently has seven volunteers who assist victims at this facility. Fltr: Insp Arthur Minnaar (SAPS Victim Empowerment Coordinator), Steven Ganger (University of Cape Town Security Management Division) who initiated the project and the Mowbray SAPS Station Commissioner, Supt Marthinus Fourie.
 

FIREARMS DESTROYED IN PORT ELIZABETH
 


 Mr Thobile Mhlahlo, MEC for Safety Liaison and
Transport,and Provincial Commissioner Mpongoma.

 
On 12 May 2005, the police in the Eastern Cape destroyed close to 2 300 firearms in Port Elizabeth. Most of these were confiscated or handed over to the police during the first amnesty period which ended on 31 March 2005. The firearms included 471 homemade firearms, 710 rifles and 1205 pistols.

According to the Eastern Cape Provincial Commissioner, Commissioner Sipho Mpongoma, more than 9 000 firearms have been destroyed in the Eastern Cape since August 2003. “So many crimes are committed with firearms and it feels good to be part of the destruction of these weapons. This will also reassure the public that firearms that have been handed in or confiscated, are actually being destroyed and can never again be used in the commission of a crime”, Commissioner Mpongoma said.