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Eastern Cape police have reassured residents of Tholeni village that they will be protected.
This follows the removal of a mobile police unit from the area near Butterworth where a suspected serial killer is accused of murdering 24 women since 2007.
Democratic Alliance MPL, Veliswa Mvenya, says the residents of Tholeni were not informed about the removal of the mobile unit.
However, provincial police spokesperson brigadier Marinda Mills says the mobile unit had experienced mechanical problems and had to be removed to be repaired.
She says another police contact point will shortly be in place in Tholeni.
"...the community of Tholeni need not fear. Although the immediate threat in that community has been removed with the arrrest of the alleged serial rapist. We do believe that that community is very rural and far from the nearest police station that's why we will continue with a mobile contact point for them."