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Pressures to re-open the Police Station

During subsequent years there were requests from residents for the re-opening of
the police station due to apparent increases in “drunkenness and immorality” in

the area. In October 1960 a deputation consisting of the chairman of the

Ratepayers Association (Mr. M. Barnett), the MP for Simon’s Town (Mr. L. C.
Gay), and three residents pressed the case for re-opening with the Deputy

Commissioner of Police in the Western Cape. Two years later in May 1962 the
Minister of Justice (Mr. B. J. Vorster) authorized the re-opening of the station.

However, nothing happened, and in June 1967 a letter to the Ratepayers
Association from the Department of Police stated that as crime had dropped a

station at Kalk Bay was not considered necessary.

And it seems that there the matter ended. Today the old police station is the home

of the Kalk Bay Harbour-Master and his family, who rent the property from the

P. W. D.

References

The Wynberg Times

W. Cape Archives, Roeland Street, Cape Town:
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MOH 165 Co 4225
AG 1684 Co 4261
AG 1693 1/SMT 1
AG 1709 ACLT 257
AG 1793 ACLT 245
AG 1830 3 CT 4/2/1/3/17
PWD 2/2/28 3 CT 4/2/1/3/210
PWD 1/2/116 3 CT 4/2/1/3/314
PWD 1/2/370 3 CT 4/2/1/3/909
LND 1/334 3 CT 4/2/1/3/1032
LND 1/564 3 CT 4/2/1/3/2247
Co 1670 3 CT 4/1/4/168
Co 1709 3 CT 4/1/4/240
Co 4120 3 CT 4/1/4/455T
Co 4138 3 CT 558/4
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