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Nov 03, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
It seems as if the officers of Leonora Police Station like to be in the limelight. On Saturday October 30, around 7pm a volunteer counselor heard someone shouting for help near her home in Zeelugt.
She looked outside and noticed a man, who is an ex convict, beating his wife on the road and the woman was screaming for help. The counselor along with her husband managed to drag the woman into her yard. She then called the Leonora Police Station and a woman officer answered the phone.
When the counselor explained what was happening the officer then said to let the woman travel to the station, make a report and then they will charge the man and pass him through the court.
Mr. Editor, I don’t know why the officers perform her duties that way. I guess it’s the normal procedure but in order for the abused woman to reach the station, she would have had to pass along a deserted area.
What was preventing the officer from sending a vehicle to the area to collect the woman? Just suppose that the counselor allows the abused woman to go and her husband who is an ex prisoner figure that she was going to the station. We are all seeing a tremendous increase in domestic violence that leads to murder and from all indication, if the police perform their duties professionally it could cause a lot of difference.
To the new Commander of the “D” Division whose office is at the Leonora Police Station, I do hope that you are stricter with what is going on at the station.
That is the same station where officers “roughed up” a boy and tortured a few others to solve the murder of a man who was a member of this ruling government’s party. That same station is one of the places where a little girl ran to seek help and no proper investigation was carried out and the little girl got murdered.
Please Mr. Commander, ensure that you are not embarrassed like your predecessors.
Sahadeo Bates

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