Gender commission report finds SAPS unfit to deal with GVB cases
The Commission for Gender Equality says the South African Police Service doesn't have enough resources to deal with gender-based violence cases.
"Massive delays in uploading of DNA cases and increasing, therefore, the rate of withdrawal of cases," says acting chairperson Nthabiseng Moleko.
"Many victims after seeing delays in cases and prosecutors sometimes having to withdraw cases from the roll.
"Postponements resulting in cases being summoned again sometimes due to lack of resources and unavailability of those victims you find that that case then gets lost."
The commission has released a report on police stations' readiness to deal with gender-based violence.
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Moleko says while there is a national plan, it's clear it has not filtered down to police stations.
"We are recommending that the monitoring and the evaluation indictors that measure and monitor the effectiveness of SAPS - we will use what they have determined for themselves.
"For example, they have a national plan on GBV integrated strategy, we will take those targets and then monitor. We will hopefully work looking forward in the medium term with status A to find a way where we can look at this from a biannual perspective using data or annual perspective."
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