Laying down the law in Mogoditshane

Arriving at the Mogoditshane Police Station, a few minutes before 10pm on a Friday night, I am nervously excited. During a debriefing earlier in the afternoon at the Broadhurst Police Station with the top brass of the country’s police force, public relations officer Witness Bosija had told us the risks involved in getting on this exercise. Despite Bosija’s warnings of violence, use of vulgar language, and encounters with really dangerous criminals, I still chose what the officials said is the “busiest police station in the country” and what many described as the “most notorious in place in Gaborone”. Armed with a camera and a fully-charged cellphone, I feel ready for an all-night patrol with the Mogodisthane police officers.