Cells: The station had seven holding cells. All of them were in operation at the time of the visit. Each cell is designed to occupy 15 people. On the day of the visit the cells were overcrowded, there were 98 people, 17 were in court and two were in hospital. Cell inspections were not done hourly as it is required. Shoe strings, plastic bags, tracksuit strings, medication and a lot of contraband was found in the cells. One detainee, Mr Ernest Mashoba had been in the cells for two years and nine months. One detainee had been detained for seven days without being charged and was only charged on the day of the visit. Another detainee had been in the cells for 17 months and detective Mogorosi did not want to give him his ID book so that he could apply for bail. There was an eighteen year old who had been in the cell for one year and three weeks. On calculation the Committee discovered that he was detained when he was younger than seventeen years and the reason given was that he was detained for mental observation.