WESTERN CAPE. – Sgt Jo-Ann Benn of the Knysna police helped a mother safely deliver her baby daughter in White Location in Knysna in the early hours of Sunday.
Acting Officer Christopher Spies, Knysna police spokesperson, said Benn and her colleagues were on crime prevention patrol at around 02:20 when a concerned woman stopped them and asked for help. Her daughter was already in labour and urgently needed assistance. Benn accompanied her to the house and guided the mother through the birth until emergency service personnel arrived.
The Community Policing Forum (CPF) in Knysna said Benn calmly guided the mother through the birth step by step and gave the baby girl the name Nolitha. The mother and baby were safely handed over to paramedics and were later discharged from hospital. Knysna's police management and the CPF thanked Benn for going above and beyond her normal duties.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
