Residents of Nelson Mandela Bay’s Chatty area could have another police station in the next two months, if police minister Bheki Cele’s latest promise is to be believed. During a visit to the city on Thursday, Cele said the government would not deploy the army to the northern areas, as it did in Cape Town.

Instead, Cele said, a new police station would be built by the end of September to beef up law enforcement capacity in the troubled area...