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Police in Eastern Equatoria say the shortage of vehicles has crippled their mandate to combat crimes in the State.

James Monday Enoka, the State Police Commissioner says a police station is supposed to have at least three vehicles for emergency response, reinforcement and fuel supply.

But the 36 stations across the state only have about 10 cars with most of them having none.

He told Eye Radio that the insufficient number of vehicles has paralyzed the work of the law enforcement agent in the State.

” You find even most of the police stations do not even have a single vehicle, it can be one vehicle for the whole county, not police station.

“It is a challenge because we cannot respond to crimes when we don’t have enough mobility.

“We have 36 police stations  and when you come to the number of vehicles we have, I can tell you it is less than 10, you can now see the gap”.

This week, the UN World Food Program donated a vehicle help the officers in Kapoeta.

“ Kapoeta is a priority, there is a lot of insecurity than other counties. If we receive another vehicle, we will also send it to another country,” he said