Update
GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - Contingency measures had to be put in place at the Graaff-Reinet SAPS offices after a senior officer tested positive for Covid-19.
The officer's results were made known to her after 9pm on 15 May.
Management had to make a decision in the interest of the members and the community's safety, and the police station was closed with immediate effect.
As part of the contingency plan, the cluster commander, brigadier Rudolph Adolph, appointed selected personnel who were not in contact with the senior officer, to operate from the Barney Eysell Hall, with the entrance at the back gate of the police station.
All Graaff-Reinet police members were ordered to be tested for Covid-19. All were put under self-isolation, except for those who had to perform duties from the Barney Eysell Hall. The patient was put under self-isolation.
Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo, spokesperson for the national police, said the evening of 16 May that all known contacts of the member are being traced and placed under self-isolation.
The screening and testing of all members took two days at Midland Hospital.
Results will only be known by the end of this week. In the meantime, the police station is undergoing a decontamination process.
The former contact details are not working, but the station can be reached at the following numbers: 049 807 1180 or cellphone 082 779 7131.
Naidoo said anyone with inquiries about service delivery at certain points, must phone one of these two numbers.
The test results of 18 police officers, who were in self-isolation at a resort in Graaff-Reinet, showed negative, as well as the results of eight hospitality workers at the resort. They were put under self-isolation after a colonel working with them at the Aberdeen roadblock tested positive.
The Graaff-Reinet police station cordoned off after a senior officer was tested positive. Photo: Christo Vermaak
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