Walvis Bay's Narraville residents have raised alarm over rising crime and drug abuse within their community.
At a recent engagement meeting, locals also voiced frustration over the slow response to calls for help by law enforcement.
Namibia will welcome a delegation of women from the South African Police Service (SAPS) who will be in the country from today until the 15th as part of South Africa's Women's Month celebrations.
Twenty people have been arrested in the Omaheke Region since the start of this year for drug abuse.
Control Prosecutor in the office of the Prosecutor General, Soraya Petrus, has raised concern that the low number of trafficking in persons cases reported in the two Kavango regions could be due to a lack of understanding.
Namibia has recorded six cases of trafficking in persons between June 2024 and June this year.
This was shared during the commemoration of the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons held at Rundu.
The killing of an Otjinene resident has reignited long-forgotten tribal tensions in the community.
The Namibian Police Force’s (NamPol) Zambezi Region Commander, Commissioner Andreas Shilelo, has raised concerns about the high number of commercially licensed firearms being returned to police stations for safekeeping shortly after their approval.
The Namibian police are investigating three separate incidents of attempted murder reported over the weekend.
An 18-month-old baby girl was injured after she was thrown from a moving vehicle about 25 km outside Outjo, en route to Kalkfeld.
Police in the Kavango East Region have listened to the local residents who have been complaining about not feeling safe.
NamPol will now carry out regular patrols for the next two months.
The police in the Zambezi Region are searching for three escapees after five trial-awaiting inmates escaped from the Ngoma police station holding cells on Saturday.
