Metro cop delivers baby amid protest

[caption id="attachment_137105" align="alignright" width="300"] Picture: Supplied[/caption]

A Cape Town metro police officer delivered a baby in the heat of protest action on Tuesday after protesters prevented an ambulance from entering Dunoon to get to the patient.

Constable Abdullah Fisher was among City of Cape Town law enforcement officers monitoring protests when a member of the public ran up to him telling him a woman was giving birth in the informal settlement.

Flanked by two colleagues with shotguns, Fisher delivered the baby while a colleague acted as translator for the 29-year-old Xhosa woman.

Metro Police deputy chief Yolanda Faro said that it was the first time Fisher had delivered a baby.

“We asked him if he wasn't nervous and he said, 'No, it's another day on the job',” said Faro.

The mother and her baby were taken to Somerset Hospital in Cape Town.

City of Cape Town mayoral committee member for safety and security JP Smith said that he was “super proud” of the officers.

Violence flared in Dunoon over the weekend after city authorities stopped a land invasion on the opposite side of the N7.

Smith said protesters threw stones at police and MyCiTi bus stations over the weekend and used petrol bombs to attack a bus depot. The bombs did not reach the buses.