People who wear blue have to go through a lot of training to prepare for almost every possible situation. However, there are times when the training doesn’t prepare them well enough for the unexpected things that happen on the job.

When something like this happens, you have to have a clear head and be able to make quick decisions in order to save a life. This is especially true when the life at stake is that of an unborn child.

The officers at SAPS New Brighton were taken aback when, on the evening of Friday, December 16, 2022, at approximately 22:20, a woman who was 25 years old walked into the police station and immediately requested an ambulance because she was in the advanced stages of labour.

Sgt. Khayakazi Jodwana, the commander of the community service centre (CSC), called the ambulance service; nevertheless, as time passed, the mother signalled that she was about to deliver the kid.

In order to provide timely assistance to the woman who was giving birth, Sgt. Jodwana and another civilian woman who’d been present at the public service centre at the time would have to act quickly.

The woman went into labour, and at approximately 2:00 in the morning on Saturday, December 17th, 2022, a boy was born to her. Blankets were brought in.

Sgt. Jodwana and several of his other coworkers at the station had dashed to the nearest hospital, which was a TB hospital, in order to get help for the mom during the load shedding that was occurring at the time.

 

They raced all the way back to the police station when it became clear that they could not receive assistance. In addition to following the ambulance back to the police station, an officer was also sent to another hospital in a police car. After the umbilical cord was cut, both the mother and the baby were taken to a hospital to be checked out and treated further.

After the ambulance left, the officers at the station pooled their money and helped the woman from the civilian community get to Plettenberg Bay.

Because the woman was unable to afford transportation to Plettenberg Bay and was stuck in Gqeberha, she went to the police station for assistance. She had been picked up in Mdantsane and driven to New Brighton, where she made the decision to check into the local police station for the night in order to ensure her own safety.