Crimes of the South African Police Service

Cele’s brutal force
March 20 2011 at 06:10pm



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National police commissioner General Bheki Cele.
South African police are becoming more brutal by the day, with civil cases against them pushing the contingent liability budget to a whopping R7.5 billion in the last financial year.

The Sunday Tribune reveals today that the sharp spike in brutal action by the police has prompted the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) to investigate three times more severe assault cases last year than in 2001.

These revelations come as the country celebrates Human Rights Day tomorrow and against the backdrop of a recent case in which the police were accused of using excessive force on civilians.

Last month the police stormed a restaurant in Melville, Joburg, in the early hours and assaulted patrons. The incident was captured on closed-circuit TV cameras inside the Catz Pyjamas and it shocked the nation.

Police researchers and lawyers who specialise in litigating against the police have warned that anecdotal reports of giving electric shocks, suffocation and other apartheid-style torture methods have become more prevalent.

- CD statistics compiled by a Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) researcher indicate that:
- Since 2001/02 the number of assault investigations conducted by the ICD has trebled from 255 to 920 in 2009/10. Attempted murder cases it investigated have gone up over seven times from 43 in 2001/02 to 325 in the last financial year.
- The number of fatal shooting investigations was at an all-time high over the past two financial years – at 556 in 2008/09 and 524 in 2009/10. The figure is compared with 458 in 1997/08, 293 in 2002/03 and an all-time low of 281 in 2005/06.
And policing researchers say the spike in fatal shootings can be traced back to KwaZulu-Natal, where there has been a 173 percent increase in five years – from 75 in 2005/06 to 205 in 2009/10.

“These statistics raise the question of whether sections of the police in KwaZulu-Natal may have adopted an approach which is defined by the belief that extra-legal methods are not only justified, but in fact necessary to address violent crime,” writes David Bruce of the CSVR.

Police ministry spokesman Zweli Mnisi says Minister Nathi Mthethwa is “extremely concerned about the continuing allegations of police brutality”.

Mnisi says strengthening ICD legislation is the first step to curbing the problem.
“We would rather have the police on the ground, fighting crime than in court defending themselves for their alleged abuses of civilians,” said Mnisi.
Meanwhile, the courts are flooded with civil cases against the police that have pushed the contingent liability budget to R2bn more than the 2005/06 financial year when the police were prepared to pay R5.3bn for assault, damage to property, shooting incidents and other “police actions”.

The police say the amount is deliberately set high, and “not all of it was utilised”.

“When you plan for possible lawsuits, it is best to have more in your budget, but it does not necessarily imply you will utilise the whole amount. So in cases where it has not been fully utilised or lesser lawsuits were brought against the police, it will then be directed to (other) programmes,” said Mnisi.

The Tribune has found a number of civil cases lodged in the Joburg and Pretoria High courts in which the applicants claim the police assaulted, gave electric shocks or suffocated them, and they demand compensation.

The taxpayer carries the burden of paying for the police’s excessive use of force.
While individual cases are not astronomical, with cost awards added, they can mount up.

- Edwin Molokomme claims to have been assaulted, suffocated and given electric shocks at the Wierdabrug police station in Pretoria, before being “forced to sign an admission statement” on February 7, 2007.

- Chiza Ndaba claims to have been bundled into the boot of his car by members of the police in Worcester in the Western Cape, kicked repeatedly and pepper-sprayed on March 19, 2008.

- Isaac Sibiya claims that after his arrest on August 18, 2007 by Vosloorus police on the East Rand, he was beaten so badly he was later admitted to hospital at the Natalspruit Hospital for more than a month.

- Zipho Ndlovu claims Midrand police hooded him, placed him in a torture position and subjected him to electric shocks on May 27, 2010.
- Sifiso Makhubu claims the Diepkloof police smothered, sjambokked and shocked him on November 14, 2009.

While these cases have yet to be tested in court, the ICD is concerned about the resurgence of heavy-handed tactics among the police, saying it has received “numerous reports of unwarranted attacks on civilians by police officers attached to special units”.

“These acts cannot be tolerated in a constitutional democracy.
“Policing in 2011 should be totally different from the apartheid past that we come from.

“Police officers should uphold the rule of law and not be the ones accused of breaking it,” said ICD executive director Francois Beukman.
The outcry came after video footage emerged of police Tactical Response Team (TRT) members barging into Melville bar, the Catz Pyjamas, and assaulting patrons.
The ICD says it is investigating the incident along with another, also involving TRT members, which took place at CJs Pub in Hillbrow.

Wits Law Clinic lawyer Peter Jordi says: “There is a level of criminality within the police much higher than the police will admit.”
Jordi has specialised in civil prosecutions against the police for more than 25 years and says, while he is not against them, he wants “the police to do a good job”.

“I saw, anecdotally, that there was a lot of torture going on in the early 1990s. This is of ordinary criminal suspects. Then there was a diminution and now torture is definitely back at full throttle. It is happening all over the place. They torture you at the drop of a hat about nothing.”

Bruce, who studied ICD statistics from as far back as 1997, says statistics of fatalities in police custody are the most reliable and concerning.
He believes there could be hundreds more incidents of common assault at the hands of the police that are not being reported. - Tribune
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1. POLICE BRUTALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA: WHEN THE SHEEP DOGS TURN ON THE SHEEP
What do you think will happen if a white man simply walks up to a black woman shoots her at point blank range and kills her? Would they call him a racist? Would the media have it as main news as a sign of a racist killing?

Now imagine a white policeman did something like that during the Apartheid years…There would be an outcry all over the world.

Two days ago this exact scenario played off East of Johannesburg. A White Afrikaans woman called Jeanette Odendaal (45) went to the police station at around 20h30 to lay a charge of disturbing the peace where she lived just a few blocks down the drag at Aston Manor.

Upon her arrival a Black self appointed “car guard” (Sipho Baloyi), of which there are millions nowadays in SA jumped at the opportunity to make a quick 50 cents by offering to help her park.

During the parking she accidently bumped her little VW Golf against a parked police vehicle. Sipho went inside and told the cops what happened. A tall Black Sergeant walked outside saw the white woman, drew his weapon and shot her several times at point blank range, in cold blood in front of witnesses. He then dragged her out of her car onto the pavement, probably to claim later that she attacked him.

The witness, Sipho then pleaded with the policeman to call an ambulance. The policeman replied, “What for? She is dying and as good as dead already…”

The officer was arrested later. Police did not allow reporters to view the cars.

Just the other day the ANC police beat, shot and killed an unarmed Black opposition party supporter Andries Tatane in Ficksburg.

The incident was broadcasted on national television and shocked the nation. Tatane was a 33 year old teacher and disillusioned former ANC member who left them and got involved with COPE and other opposition activists…like most former ANC supporters nowadays.

These are not isolated incidents. Two other police brutality cases were before KwaZulu-Natal courts on Tuesday. In Greytown five policemen allegedly strangled a person in custody. In Hammarsdale 15 policemen are accused of beating a suspect to death.

…But the functionally illiterate former kitchen and polish boy, now President Jacob Zuma, who only learned to read and write from his communist warlord and mass murderer buddy of the Natal Midlands Harry Gwala, whilst they were in prison on Robben Island, reckons that these are indeed isolated incidents. Zuma says Police Brutality cases are isolated incidents

Here is onother incident of police brutality with photo against a black night club owner in Cape Town…everything caught on CCTV camera.

A few weeks ago four cops brutally assaulted patrons at the Catz Pajamas Restaurant in Mellville, everything also caught on shocking CCTV footage. The video can be seen below along with the killing of Tatane’s video.

Isolated incidents my arse. This is becoming daily occurences.

What is the story here?

In Psychology there are two famous experiments namely the Milgram experiment
and the Zimbardo experiment that proves that when seemingly ordinary people are put in a position of power and absolved from accountability that they will turn into monsters.

I once wrote an article on how the entire New South Africa is one giant Zimbardo experiment

This is exactly what the ANC has done. They have appointed Bheki Cele, a corrupt Mafioso wannabee Snoop Dog pimp type Black man in charge of the police as the National Police Commissioner. They have put him above the law and he went on and ordered the police to shoot to kill and ask questions later

This is the half literate under trained SA Police Service with R5 automatic rifles and CZ 9mm pistols in their hands.

In his book, “On Killing” Lt. Col. Grossman, a military psychologist relates the function of police to that of Sheep, Wolves and Dogs. He says that ordinary people are for the most part sheep. The criminals are the wolves and the police are the sheep dogs.

The public do not always like the sheep dogs because they look too much like wolves and can behave just as aggressively, but when the actual wolves come for them then they quickly hide behind the sheep dogs.

The sheep dogs have to behave aggressively to keep the wolves at bay and protect the sheep.

One thing that the sheep dogs are NEVER allowed to do is to turn on the sheep and bite or kill a sheep. If a sheep dog attacks a sheep, he should be removed immediately and put out of his misery. This is normally done by the shepherd, the government.

This is what is happening here in South Africa. The ANC police are turning on the public. They are not fighting crime and criminals; they are assaulting and killing the public…innocent citizens...black and white. But in our case the shepherd is not only looking on, he is enticing the sheep dogs, spurring them on to assault and kill the sheep...and ask questions later.

The question is then…”Who will remove the shepherd from power?”

Only the sheep can do that. The sheep will have to revolt, but the sheep are too dumb to do it, so they will need some pigs like Snowball and Napoleon in “Animal Farm”…the book by George Orwell.

The ANC should wake up and learn from recent history. They forget how Idi Amin, Ferdinand Marcos, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, etc. were humiliated and kicked out of their countries…by the very sheep their sheepdogs attacked.

The ANC should decide how they want to end up.

Maybe the ANC leadership should also remember how their great East German Stasi hero Erich Mielke died a lonely man in a Berlin nursing home, some say less that a 100 people attended his funeral…Probably just to go spit on his grave...

Something drastic needs to be done to curb the current state of police lawlessness.
Not everyone is cut out to be a policeman..and its imperative that Psychometric Tests be done to ensure or at least try and isolate the crack pots entering the police force.

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By Mike Smith
3rd of December 2011

Here is a report of a white woman, her 62 year old mother and the kiddies who were involved in a fender bender and assaulted by black cops.

You can see the arrogance of these bastards who think they are above the law. The Metro Police in South Africa is well known as corrupt scum who often extorts bribes from people.

But sometimes they mess with the wrong person, as in the case of Bees Roux who killed one in self defence.

Daily these cops go around slapping white women and the elderly to extort bribes from them. They are nothing but corrupt filth. It is at times like this that I wish I could be there. God only knows how I hate these pigs. I pray every day for the change to wreak revenge on their asses.

Read the original article at this Link but take note of the full story as told by the daughter in the comment section.

Elderly woman kept in police cells after ‘slapping’ officer

A 62-year-old woman who allegedly assaulted a metro police officer after a bumper bashing on Monday morning, spent almost a day in police cells.

Mrs Thelma Standring Keane (62) appeared in Kempton Park Magistrate's Court the following day and was released on her own accountability,

Keane and her daughter Bronwyn were in the car when the accident occurred.

It is alleged that Bronwyn wanted to take the officers' names and was pushed and her hands were smacked.

Keane apparently tried to take a photograph of an officer's name badge and he allegedly pushed her, after which she apparently slapped him.
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from: LA Times
REPORTING FROM JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- A South African government minister reportedly spends the equivalent of nearly $70,000 of taxpayer money on a trip to Switzerland to visit his girlfriend in jail (facing drug charges), then tells the president that he was on official business.

Now that was embarrassing. (He's been on sick leave since February).
Then there was the minister and the police chief who were implicated in an unlawful deal to lease police buildings at inflated prices, which cost taxpayers more than $250 million.

You're a JOKE!!!!!

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Afriforum was contacted after constable Angelique Kok, an Afrikaner police woman, was allegedly cursed by Brig Ndebele for “not driving with her blue lights on” when they were on patrol Friday-night in Sunnyside, Pretoria.

Ndebele was in a police car next to hers and yelled out the window. The young female constable then stopped her vehicle and climbed out - gesturing to Mrs Ndebele to repeat her comments because she couldn't hear them properly while driving.
Ndebele was in another car with a police-colonel. Ndebele then walked over to constable Kok's car, took the keys from the police vehicle's ignition and climbed back into her own car with the colonel. Constable Kok then went to Brig Ndebele's vehicle asking for her keys back as her police-dog was not allowed to remain alone in the vehicle.

Ndebele responded by telling Kok “don't you salute the colonel?”. Kok responded by saying that she had 'not seen the colonel' (it was at night), but then Mrs Ndebele snarled at the young Afrikaner police officer: “You think you are special because of your skin colour, because you are white”.

W/O Kok's police car was then driven away from the site by someone else. This occurred at a notorious prostitution spot on the corner of Schoeman and Wessel Streets in Sunnyside.

The young police constable was left standing alone without any transportation or any other colleagues. She was carrying only her police-revolver.

Kelder said: “Police management claims to be so worried because so many police-officers are being murdered, but then an SAPS-brigadier leaves a young female constable, armed only with her service pistol, alone amongst a bunch of drunk men and prostitutes”.

W/o Kok had to contact a friend to come and fetch her. She was so traumatised by the racial abuse and the entire experience that she's undergoing psychiatric counselling. W/o Kok, accompanied by Mr Kelder, placed a charge of crimen injuria at the Lyttelton-police station in Centurion.

This was confirmed by SAPS capt Pinky Tsinyane, provincial police spokesman. “The police are aware of the case. Once the investigation is complete, the dossier will be referred to the directorate of public prosecutions for a decision whether the case will be prosecuted in the courts, or not”, Tsinyane said.
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June 17 2011 Acacia – Four Afrikaans youths assaulted, shot at, kicked by Soshanguve cops, cursed as ‘criminals’ and ‘hijackers’ – for just strolling along the roadside –
when just strolling along the road:

Yesterday-afternoon I heard the personal account from four Afrikaans youths who were brutally assaulted while walking on the Brits Road in the Acacia policing-district – after buying cigarettes on June 17, 2011 at 2am.

The four matric-friends from the Gerrit Maritz Afrikaans high school in the Acacia policing district of Pretoria were walking well away from the kerb, on the other side of a pallisade fence next to a dam. One of them, Armand Janse van Rensburg, 17, had just gone through the gate and was the only one standing at the kerbsidem waiting for his friends to join him. Suddenly a vehicle came screeching up to him, terrifying the youngster so much that he scaled the pallisade fence in great panic– believing they were being attacked by criminals. Both his hands were pierced while doing this. (picture below, after treatment at Montana hospital). Armand hid hid behind the fence while his three friends, amongst them their spokesman Martin Fourie, 17, who spoke to me yesterday, were accosted by two men who jumped out, armed. They did not identify themselves as police officers. The road was very dark and deserted at that time of night and visibility was very poor.

The boys said that one of the armed men was white, one was black. They fired a shot towards three Afrikaner youths and ordered them to lie down. Armand was hiding behind the fence – in pain from his pierced hands. A shot was fired by one of the men and they summonsed the three youths to lie down on the pavement, cursing and screaming insults at them. Only then did the youths realise that the men had arrived in what looked like a police vehicle. The black police-officer then proceeded to kick and hit the three terrified youngsters for a long time. Mr Fourie emphasized that specifically the black police officer – who never identified himself as a cop– took the lead in kicking and assaulting them, cursing them for ‘criminals’ and ‘hijackers’ and demanding to know ‘where the dagga was’.

The youngsters protested in vain that they had no drugs, that they had simply gone to buy some cigarettes, that they certainly were not ‘hijackers’. They just kept on being beaten, kicked, accused and yelled at., said Fourie in a telephone interview with me.

Armand went to stand next to the police vehicle where the white police officer was watching the black colleague assault the three Afrikaner youths: who were Martin Fourie, as well as Jan-Hendrik and Juandre. (last names not disclosed).The officers both spoke Afrikaans to the youngsters. Their ordeal lasted more than an hour while they were being kicked, cursed for ‘criminals’ and assaulted. Eventually the two cops called for reinforcement and a whuite police officer who identified himself as w/o Ras Hamilton of the Soshanguve Dog Unit also showed up. Martin Fourie said he was being threatened with a gun by one of the first two officers when he demanded to have their names and ranks given to him.

Martin Fourie: “It was ludicrous to accuse us of being hijackers. We weren’t anywhere near a car and in any case three of us were walking behind the pallisade fence on the other side of the roadway at the time their car pulled up – and we had no access to the road, while Armand was the only one who had already gone through the gate. There was no reason for these police-officers to act this way and point their gun at us. We were unarmed and their lives never were in any danger from us,’ said Fourie.

When w/o Hamilton showed up he roughly told the three youngsters to ‘fk off’ home’ and told the two cops to take the injured Armand home so that he could get treatment for his hands. The parents took him to Montana Hospital in the early-morning hours.
The youngsters were so traumatised that they were then too terrified to notify the local police of the incident: instead they contacted a police officer in Sunnyside to take their submission. Thus the case initially was registered at the Sunnyside PD and transferred to Acacia.The young Afrikaners are badly traumatised by the incident, all four suffer nightmares and pain from the internal injuries they incurred during the kickings and the beatings. They have also contact Afriforum to obtain legal advice.

Armand Janse van Rensburg’s hands: pierced by pallisade fence as he fled in fear from the cops





June 22 2011 – Armando Mourao – arrested at the airport, just about to board a plane to Lisbon with his family: Randburg police were ‘looking for a black man’ – but Mr Mourao is white: so the family had to buy new tickets for August 4… and are terrified that it will happen again.

Message from aarm@telkomsa.net — Hi, my name is Armando and I think I might have a good story. On the 22nd of June 2011 at about 18.00 I was about to travel to Lisbon with my family when I got stopped a Passport Control. I was sent to the police station where I was arrested for no reason whatsoever. After a bit of argument with the police they told me that that I “had been arrested for fraud: .

I phone my family to let them now that I was not going to make the flight with them because I was arrested. They decided that they were not going to travel any longer because they wanted to help me. I ask them to get me legal advice as I did not know what was happening.They immediately got some legal advice. I was taken to a cell at OR Tambo airport waiting to be transferred to the Honeydew police station, and waiting for the police to arrive. It was then decided to take me to the Randburg police station, where I was driven from OR Tambo to the middle of town in Johannesburg via Commissioner and then turn onto Rissik Street where the driver stop to pick up some one at the City hall .

When we arrived at the police station in Randburg my attorney was already there to help me. I spoke very briefly with my legal representative and my family.They assured me that they will help me and I assured them that I did not know anything of what was happening.There was a “case against me”. They got hold of the detective that was handling the case to clarify the matter. The detective in question has told my attorney that he was on the way to the station to resolve the matter. After a 2 hours wait and several calls from my attorney to him he has decide not to go to the station and put off his phone or was not taking calls from my attorney.

I was forced to stay in a cell with other 8 prisoners, which I did not know what kind of people they were. I could not sleep. At about 2 or 3 in the morning my attorney told me that ‘there was nothing they could do for me but wait until 8.30 for the Court be open and then present my case to the Judge’.

‘ My ‘file’ was missing: but they were looking for a black person: and I am white’:
While in Court they got to know that the police and the detectives in Honeydew could not find the file where I was charged for. After a few hours the file was then found and brought to the police station in Randburg. I was then called from the cell to the office in front where there was 3 detectives waiting for me. For their big surprise they could not believed when they saw me and then opened the file.

I am a white person and the person that they were looking for was a black person. After 10 or 15 minutes I was then released after spending 18 hours in prison for a crime that I did not committed and a mistake from the police where they had a totally different person from what the file said.
We lost all our money: we had paid for the family’s tickets to Lisbon – and now we have to buy them again…

We then drove to Honeydew police station to get an affidavit from me as well some form stating that the circulation from the police for “my arrest is invalid”. My family and I try to fly the next day after losing all the money that we have paid for our tickets.

We had to buy new tickets. I was then too scared to travel as my ID number is still on the computers where they are going arrest me again. And it will take up to 3 months for my name to be cleared from the data base. “
• I plan to travel again on 4 August 2011 but I am scared to do so. I can not sleep at night. Please help so that this situation will not happen again to me or to anyone else!

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Amnesty alert over SA police brutality
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Amnesty International flags SA police brutality

Amnesty International’s Report 2011 has flagged police torture, deaths in custody, extrajudicial killings and threats to the work of human rights defenders as matters of concern in South Africa. It cited Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) figures for April 2009 to March last year, which recorded five direct complaints against the police of torture and 920 complaints of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm by the police - and only some of which were being investigated for evidence of torture. Seven of 294 deaths in custody were linked to torture and 90 others to “injuries sustained in custody”.

The ICD also investigated 24 complaints of rape by police officers.
Also of concern to Amnesty were proposed changes to the Criminal Procedures Act that would allow police to use deadly force against a suspect resisting or fleeing arrest, where they believe there is a risk of “future death” if the suspect escapes. This, it noted, allowed for the use of deadly force “in circumstances beyond those allowed by international human rights standards”.



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The report also raised concerns over threats to freedom of expression and the work of human rights defenders.

It cited, among others, the trial of 12 supporters of housing rights movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on charges relating to violence in the Kennedy Road informal settlement in 2009 and the unlawful arrest of Sunday Times journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika after his reports on an alleged hit squad linked to senior Limpopo provincial government members.

Also of concern were ANC proposals for a media appeals tribunal and the tabling of the “draconian” Protection of Information Bill.
Amnesty International did not however condemn the ongoing genocide of the Afrikaners under the ANC regime.
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Locnville 'assaulted by police'
2011-06-09 10:00



Cape Town – Electro pop duo Locnville were reportedly assaulted by police in the early hours on Thursday, reports Kfm.

Locnville tweeted: "Locnville was just assaulted by police officers!!!"

According to Kfm, Locnville brothers Brian and Andrew Chaplin were at a petrol station with a friend in Claremont, Cape Town, when a group of people confronted them.

The group reportedly made comments about Locnville's music and started a fight.

Police then intervened, maced Brian in the face and punched their friend.

Their Facebook page said the following: "Locnville was just assaulted by the SAPS!!!!! Brian was maced and our best friend punched in the face by the fucking police!!!!! Can you believe it????? What happened to South Africa????"

Locnville admitted that they had been drinking, but said they did not start the fight.

Attempts to get comment have so far been unsuccessful. More information to follow.
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Knysna police ordered to meet arrest quotas
Katherine Wilkinson

Knysna police say they have been ordered to meet quotas for arrests, with one member having gone so far as to make out a sworn affidavit to that effect.

Although police have asked not to be named as they are fearful of repercussions, this reporter has seen a full copy of the affidavit and was then given a copy in which details identifying the policeman who wrote it have been removed.

In the affidavit, he stated he was called into the police station and told all Knysna police officers have to meet arrest quotas:
He said he was told that “all four shifts at the station have to arrest ± 200 ‘B’ crimes, 15 drug related crimes and 12 drunken driving so he is asking me to participate in this as I am behind and may be charged with Regulation 64 if I fail to meet my targets per month (sic).”

He stated that he told his officer he was busy with complaints and that he had conducted “some stop and searches” with “no luck”.
“He then told me that other people have done it and that I just have to do better.”
A further two Knysna policemen who also spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the arrest quota system in Knysna.

One said, “Quotas for arrests has been going on for years now. I don’t believe in it because you are not doing it for the sake of society. Statistics are a good thing, but they are there to guide you on how to police properly. The police have made statistics the alpha and omega of crime fighting.”
His colleague said: “The quota system is in place, for a long time, for a hell of a long time.”

The practice of arrest quotas is specifically condemned in the SAPS Criminal Procedure Act.

South African Police Union (SAPU) Secretary of the Western Cape, Billy Daniels said on Thursday the matter of arrest quotas had been taken up with the Knysna police station about four years ago, but not recently. He said he understood the practice had ceased.

“It has never been raised with me recently. I spoke to the shop steward at Knysna and the area shop steward, they are completely unaware there has been any problem like that.”

SAPS Southern Cape spokesperson, Captain Malcolm Pojie said he would need to get legal advice before answering any questions on the topic.
Police Internal Complaints Directorate (ICD) spokesperson Moses Dlamini said the ICD was not aware of the practice.

“It would be helpful for the police officer to make himself available for an interview with the ICD with a view to get more details and to determine what course of action should be taken in this matter.”

Western Cape MEC for Safety and Security Lennit Max’s spokesperson, Jo Lennox said, “The Minister’s response re the officer’s claim is that it’s a serious allegation as it goes against the objective of policing which is the prevention of crime.

“In order for him to take the matter up with the Provincial Police Commissioner he will need to see the affidavit and the officer’s name must be disclosed.
“He can then take the matter up with General (Mzwandile) Petros.”

The Knysna police station is under investigation by the ICD in connection with the alleged rape of a Plettenberg Bay guest house owner by police on February 6. She said she was raped in a police vehicle while being held down by a second policeman. She said she managed to escape while the policemen were swopping places. To date no arrests have been made.

She said she had been told by “senior officers of the police in Knysna” that police knew the identity of the “culprits” based on identikits she had helped to compile.
“But not one of them is willing to come forward as a witness or to say a single thing of the events of that night.

“Apparently, they have been instructed not to talk about the incident at all.”
One of the policemen involved in the investigation feared for his safety, she claimed.

“A police member involved with the investigation has advised me that he trusts nobody in the Knysna Police Services and that he fears for his life and that of his family.”

Furthemore, while in Knysna during March to investigate the alleged rape, the ICD arrested three Knysna policemen for murder.
Dlamini said at the time, “The ICD has arrested three police officers who are based at Knysna police station for murder. . .The deceased died in hospital from injuries sustained during arrest by police officers from Knysna police station. – West Cape News
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Police assault caught on camera
2011-05-02 11:05

Pretoria - Pretoria police officers have been caught on CCTV cameras kicking and punching an unarmed man, Beeld reported on Monday.
Theuns Potgieter, 33, of Silverton had gone to a petrol station in Gezina around 21:00 on Thursday, April 21, to get two flat tyres repaired.

He had his firearm tucked into the back of his pants, but did not have his licence with him.

CCTV footage shows police officers arriving at the station and walking over to where Potgieter and his friend are talking to another man in the workshop area.

"Even before they asked me I took out my gun and put it on the car's engine cover. The police told us to lie down. I raised my arms and lay down," he was quoted as saying.

Resisting arrest

Another man, presumably a plain-clothes policeman, then walks up to Potgieter and kicks him in the stomach several times as officers in uniform look on. He then stomps on his head, punches him in the face and kicks him in the stomach again.

A uniformed officer then kicks Potgieter. While he is being handcuffed, the first policeman kicks him again. He was taken to the Pretoria Moot police station, accused of possession of an unlicensed firearm, pointing a firearm and resisting arrest.

Potgieter was taken to hospital after vomiting blood and passing blood in his urine. After he was discharged he appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court where he was released on bail of R2 000. While in custody, it was confirmed that he was the lawful owner of the gun.

According to Potgieter, police refused to help him open an assault case against the officers.

Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Neville Malila told Beeld: "... such alleged conduct by police members cannot be tolerated".

The matter was being viewed in a serious light and would be investigated, he said.

Potgieter's beating was the third case of alleged police violence in two weeks. Last week Jeanette Odendaal was shot dead, allegedly by a police sergeant, as she sat in her car outside the Kempton Park police station, after apparently having bumped into a police van while parking.

Andries Tatane was killed during a protest in Ficksburg. He was allegedly shot at point-blank range with rubber bullets and beaten with rubber truncheons.
- SAPA
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Police-assault-caught-on-camera-20110502

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ICD probes police brutality report
2011-05-03 14:14

Johannesburg - The Independent Complaints Directorate is looking into a Daily Sun report on Tuesday that two teenage girls and their aunt were assaulted for five hours by police in Mpumalanga in February.

"I've contacted our provincial office," ICD spokesperson Moses Dlamini said on Tuesday morning.

He was still waiting for more information.

"We don't have anything concrete yet," said Dlamini.

The Daily Sun reported that police officers kicked and punched the two teenage girls and their aunt.

This resulted in one of the teenagers, who is 16-years-old, suffering a collapsed lung. She was now dependent on an oxygen tank to breathe, said the newspaper.
The aunt, Tina Vungande, 30, told the Daily Sun: "The cops forced their way into my house at Matsulu, near Mbombela in Mpumalanga and said they had come to search but wouldn't tell me what they were looking for.

"They turned the house upside down and when I asked if they had found what they were looking for, they called me a whore and began beating me up.

"That was when Cassandra and her 13-year-old sister Zinhle walked in and asked why they were beating me. Then the cops began beating her as well.

"They hurled all three of us into a police van and took us to the police station where the beating continued."

The three were later released by the police.

She said most of their clothes and cash were stolen by the police officers.

Mpumalanga police spokesperson Leonard Hlathi confirmed to the Daily Sun that Vungande had laid charges against the police.
- SAPA
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ICD-probes-police-brutality-report-20110503-3

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South African 'most wanted' criminal slips from police custody on crutches
One of South Africa's most wanted criminals made the most mundane of escapes when he slipped from police custody by walking out of a Pretoria courtroom door along with members of the public.



Bongani Moyo.
By Aislinn Laing, Southern Africa Correspondent
5:01PM BST 10 Aug 2011

Bongani Moyo, 29, a Zimbabwean national who was arrested this year after a much publicised manhunt where his picture was plastered over nationwide media, was due at a hearing related to the armed robbery of 35 banks.
Described by police as a "dangerous criminal" in the Crime Line appeal, he was arrested at the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe after escaping from Boksburg prison in March.

Police spokesman Captain Katlego Mogale admitted that Mr Moyo had also been on crutches when he escaped from court.
"He was not locked up inside the cell and or in shackles. He was sitting between court 16 and 17 and escaped through court 16," he told local newspaper The Mail & Guardian.

The Department of Correctional Services, which placed Mr Moyo under police care for the hearing, had a few choice words about his escape.

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"He was picked up by the police so he could go to court, and escaped under the nose of the police," spokesman Phumlani Ximiya said. "We warned the police that this person had escaped before and therefore they should tighten their security."
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Cop Shoots Woman

2011-04-28
A car guard who said he witnessed the shooting of an unarmed civilian outside the Kempton Park police station, east of Johannesburg, has told The Star newspaper that the policeman refused to call an ambulance.
Sipho Baloyi, who had helped Jeanette Odendaal, 45, to park her car when she crashed into a stationary police vehicle, said the sergeant shot her from short distance after Baloyi alerted the police to the accident in the parking lot.


"A sergeant came around from the charge office and walked out of the station. He didn't say anything, but walked to her passenger window. He shot her upper arm and it looked like the bullet went through her breast and out of her chest," said Baloyi.



The police officer then walked back into the police station, but returned a few seconds later.
He said he pleaded with the sergeant to call emergency services.

But, said Baloyi, the sergeant told him: "She's dying already, there's no point in calling the ambulance."

He said other police officers flooded the scene after the shooting and demanded to know from the sergeant why he had shot her. The sergeant then allegedly burst into tears.

Beeld newspaper reported that Odendaal, who lived in Aston Manor, a few kilometres from the police station, had wanted to report a case of disturbance of peace.

The Star said her family would travel from Middelburg in Mpumalanga on Thursday to identify her body.

The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) said on Wednesday that the sergeant had been arrested and would appear in court soon.

It was believed that he mistook the noise of the crash for gun shots.

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Cops in CCTV beating



CITY police officers have been caught on closed-circuit television cameras handcuffing a local nightclub owner and hitting him repeatedly on the head and body until he falls over.

The footage was captured by cameras in Woodstock’s Dreams Sports Bar late on Saturday night.

One series of images shows the bar’s owner, Nnamdi Muoka, standing next to a table and a couch, his hands cuffed behind his back, while a male police officer hits him with what looks like a torch.

Muoka is shown trying to evade the uniformed officer, who follows him around the couch and eventually corners him, beating him to the ground.



One of Muoka’s friends, Nicky Asher-Pedro, said she was also attacked by the officers from the Woodstock police station just before midnight on Saturday, while she was at the bar in Victoria Road.

Asher-Pedro, a former Bush Radio presenter and producer who now works for city magazine the Big Issue, said she was pepper-sprayed, manhandled and her skirt was torn by police officers after she questioned their attack on Muoka.
She, Muoka and the bar owner’s brother, Osita Nwadike, were arrested and detained in the Woodstock police station’s holding cells from the early hours of Sunday morning, before being released on warning on Monday.

The three are due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s court on May 10, having been charged under “the liquor act”, Asher-Pedro said.

When approached for comment, Woodstock police station spokesman Hilton Malila said he was not aware of the incident, but would investigate.

An officer at the Woodstock police station confirmed the arrests today, and told the Cape Argus the three had been charged with assaulting a police officer.

Malila would not confirm details of the arrests, referring all further queries to the provincial communications office.

Asher-Pedro claimed that the trio had not been allowed to make phone calls and that the police refused to allow anyone bring them jackets.

“I could not even tell my 14-year-old son, who was at home, where I was (over) the weekend,” she said.

Asher-Pedro said that six police officers entered the Dreams Sports Bar just before midnight on Saturday and told Muoka that there was too much noise coming from the premises.
Muoka questioned them, she said, and the police allegedly responded by swearing at him and telling him to shut up.

Asher-Pedro said Muoka had persisted, and the officers allegedly threatened to arrest him. She said they handcuffed him and one officer allegedly hit Muoka in the face.

At that point, she intervened, asking the officer why he was hitting a handcuffed man.

“That is when they started attacking me, throwing my phone on the floor and dragging me, while ripping my skirt.

“They pepper sprayed me in the eyes.”

She claimed that other patrons were also pepper sprayed and were chased out of the club. Some, who were recording the incident on their cellphones, had the phones confiscated, she said.

Muoka confirmed the incident, saying he had talked to his lawyers and preferred not to comment at this stage.

The three were due to meet with lawyers today to provide statements, which would be filed to the Independent Complaints Directorate so it could investigate, Asher-Pedro said this morning.

Muoka showed the Cape Argus several City of Cape Town documents showing he was licensed to do business on the premises.

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R750 000 to Rent House

2011-05-31
The public works department will spend about R750 000 to rent a house for Gauteng police commissioner Mzwandile Petros, The Star reported on Tuesday.



"Last month, the department hired Siyakula Logistics to provide a house at a cost of R31 042 a month, or R745 008 for the two-year contract," the newspaper wrote.

The award was listed in the Tender Bulletin on Friday and the cost was confirmed by department officials.

The state provided Petros with housing because he did not apply for the position, but was transferred from his previous position as Western Cape provincial commissioner.

He was appointed in Gauteng September of last year.

Housing tender

The Star reported that the housing tender, issued in March, called for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in or around Rosebank, Melrose, Oaklands, Dunkeld, Killarney, Morningside, Houghton, Illovo or Saxonwold.

It also called for the house to have electronic access control and a "solid perimeter wall with a minimum height of two metres" with an electric fence on top.

The acquisition of the house followed a report by the Gauteng department of infrastructure development, in which revealed it had 780 state-owned houses in the province.
One of these houses, in Bryanston, which was previously occupied by Mzwandile Kibi, deputy director-general of the department of infrastructure development, "appears to have all the features to accommodate Petros," The Star wrote.

The provincial government owned 826 state houses across six regions, but only 46 tenants had signed lease agreements.

In February, infrastructure development MEC Bheki Nkosi promised to act against those who were illegally occupying government houses.

"He issued a March deadline, but apparently has yet to act on his promise."
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Cops Arrested for Theft

2011-05-31
Two Durban metro police officers and a police sergeant have been arrested for pocketing stolen wristwatches, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Tuesday.

Lieutenant Colonel Vincent Mdunge said two metro police officers confiscated 400 watches, worth about R3 000 each, from a 70-year-old Johannesburg man in a hotel in Umhlanga last week.

On the way to the Durban north police station, the two metro police officers each took 25 of the watches.

They handed in the rest, but the sergeant on duty at the police station also stole a few.

The Durban organised crime unit launched an investigation when the owner of the watches complained about the theft.

Mdunge said police arrested the two metro police on Monday afternoon. They found 25 of the watches in the home of one of the officers and 17 at the other's house.

The investigators the took the two to the Durban north police station, where they saw an on-duty sergeant wearing one of the watches and arrested him too.

They found 20 watches in a search of his house.

All three men were charged with theft and would appear in the Durban Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

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S.Africa: The Crime War in my suburb: Montgomery Park & North Cliff - Police feedback... Do our Police have no money? - Shutting up the Mass MediaDate Posted: Tuesday 29-Nov-2011

[On Sunday I was busy writing a lengthy article for the site, but time prevented me from finishing it. I will still try to finish it in the coming days.

I heard some disquieting news about the Police in our area, but am waiting for firmer information before publishing anything.

I want to publish a report, along with the contact details, but I want to point you to a real problem. In it, it speaks of adopting a Police vehice... as if the businesses and the public have to pay for Police vehicles because... it appears there is no money to properly maintain them. Read it below and draw your own conclusions. We pay our Taxes. Govt is supposed to allocate budget for the Police and for crime... why do we still have to chip in? What's the problem? Sounds fishy to me.

Take note of the gang from Alex (Alexandra township - a black township), which is operating in NorthCliff. And note too, the critical shortage of Police vehicles for the Sophiatown Police station - which services my suburb and several other neighbouring suburbs. So we can't fight crime because somehow there is no money for vehicles for the Police?

I heard something else about the Police, but am waiting for confirmation before I tell you.

PS: I have not commented on the hideou Media bill which the ANC rammed through parliament which effectively will shut up much of the Mass Media with respect to things going on in this country and in the govt. Even the "public need to know" requirement was pretty much shut out.

The ANC is not tolerating any kind of criticism or expose of the rotten way they are running this country into the ground because there is a possibility that even the black masses of this country might no longer vote for them... hence this total shutting down of the Mass Media. Journalists will go to jail for exposing almost anything... Free Speech in this country... is now effectively, totally GONE. Jan]
Read the entire article….
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Former KZN cop jailed for life
2011-12-07 14:13

Johannesburg - A former police officer has been jailed for life by the Mtunzini High Court for killing two colleagues and a boy, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday.

The court sentenced Judea Ntuli, 28, on Tuesday, Lieutenant Colonel Vincent Mdunge said.

Ntuli was a member of the public order police unit in Ulundi. He went on a shooting spree in May 2009, killing three people.

"They were attending a crime awareness campaign at a park in Ulundi when he shot them," Mdunge said.

Detective Constable Zephania Ntshayintshayi and Lieutenant Colonel Bongi Masemola were killed.

Ntuli then ran to the Gqokamandla High School after killing the officers, where he robbed a security guard of his firearm.

"He then got into the classroom, dragged 13-year-old pupil Senzo Vilakazi out and shot him dead."

The motive for the crime was not known. Ntuli turned the gun on himself later in the day in his apartment in an attempt to commit suicide.
- SAPA
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Cops held for manipulating crime stats

2011-12-12 10:44
Polokwane - Four top Limpopo police have appeared in court for allegedly manipulating crime statistics in Tzaneen, according to a news report on Monday.

Brigadier Naledzani Julia Sivhula, 48, Captain Matome Jonathan Matsapola, 51, Brigadier Nelson Mulaudzi, 50, and Lieutenant Colonel Mahlodi William Ramokgobedi, 49, appeared in Polokwane Magistrate's Court on Thursday, the Sowetan newspaper reported.

The four station commanders were charged with defeating the ends of justice and would appear in court again on January 20.

Investigations began when the crime statistics for Tzaneen were found to be inaccurate and found that in 2008 serious crimes had been deliberately covered up.

The investigation found that murder cases had been reduced to inquests and housebreakings were played down by being described as cases of trespassing.
- SAPA
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Man dies in police custody
December 12 2011 at 01:20pm
By Mandilakhe Tshwete
________________________________________



Khwezi s aunt Lulama Mngoma.


A Cape Flats man has died in police custody – and now his well-known family is demanding answers.
They say police arrested Khwezi Mbatsha, 29, on Friday morning. Hours later they heard that he was dead.
Khwezi ran the popular tavern Mam’s Place, in Nyanga, which is owned by his grandmother Judith Mbatsha, 80.
His aunt Lulama Mngoma, 56, tells the Daily Voice Khwezi was taken into police custody on charges of attempted murder.
Mngoma says: “When my mom went to check at the police station, he wasn’t there.
“The police told my mom he was probably transferred to another police station.
“At about 5pm we were told he died after he had an epileptic attack.”
But Mngoma says Khwezi has never had epileptic fits.
“He hasn’t been to the doctor since he was two years old. This is new, how can he suddenly get fits?” she says.
The deceased’s friend Pharie Sefali, 24, says Khwezi was involved in a fight last month.
“He told us he shot two brothers but they agreed they wouldn’t press charges,” Sefali says.
“The police said they wanted the gun he used to shoot the guys and that is how he ended up being arrested.”
The family has laid a charge with the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD).
ICD spokesman Moses Dlamini says: “It is alleged that he was arrested for attempted murder by detectives from Nyanga SAPS.
“After he was detained, he was allegedly booked out by members of the Tactical Response Team based at the station at about 3.10pm.
“According to the police, the deceased fainted as he was being taken to point out a firearm.”
Cops then tried in vain to resuscitate Khwezi.
“The officers took him to the KTC Day Hospital in Nyanga at about 5.30pm where he was certified dead on arrival,” he adds.
“The deceased had no visible injuries, except for handcuff marks.”
Dlamini adds that a post-mortem will be done on Monday.
* This article was published in the Daily Voice
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KZN Convoy Caught on Film


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Saturday, 12 November 2011
BOILING ANGER AT ANC BLUE-LIGHT KILLER-BULLIES
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No charges yet for driver of MEC's blue-light BMW who (allegedly) ran down Thomas Feirrera on Saturday, Nov 4 2011
2011-11-10 Picture: the driver of MEC Humphrey Mmemezi's luxury BMW X5 is well-known in Krugersdorp for his high-speed, rude behaviour in traffic, witnesses say … and when he got out of the car, he never even glanced at the critically-injured Afrikaner youth he’d run down: he merely went to inspect the damage to the car, witnesses say.

Louise Ferreira, Beeld journalist, is writing that ‘the driver who ran down Thomas Ferreira, 18, of Krugersdorp on his bike Saturday, has not been charged. SAPS lt.col Katlego Mogale says 'statements have not yet been taken from witnesses'. Mogale told Ferreira that 'a case of reckless and negligent driving is being investigated, but that ‘the man would not be arrested but a warning would be issued for him to appear in court ".

Thomas, still in a coma with suspected brain-damage, is meanwhile undergoing surgery on his badly damaged arm and a leg, said his uncle Johan Ferreira.
And while the officials of the Gauteng provincial government including premier Nomvula Mokonyane continue to confirm that MEC Mmemezi was inside the high-speed, blue-light official vehicle, he himself insists that he was not in the car. Ms Mokonyane had said in an extraordinary interview with the news media outside the Ferreira family home that the MEC 'was inside the car but was immediately whisked away from the accident scene by body-guards' and 'rushed to an urgent meeting in Krugersdorp.'

Krugersdorp residents Lizanne and Peet van Wyk and other witnesses said this was however not the case; that the driver 'definitely was alone inside the vehicle." Mrs van Wyk told Ferreira that: 'it's not possible that he could have been sitting on the back seat. He would have needed medical treatment. And what about his bodyguards? We would have seen them too". Other witnesses such as George Stander of Cape Town who was with a group of friends that night, said the same thing: "There were three people in shorts who climbed from a taxi. Don't tell me those were bodyguards. Those were the only people we saw around (the driver).'
Stander's friend Niel Muller of Krugersdorp agreed: It was Muller who took the photographs of the accident scene: Ferreira's bike, the government-BMW and also photographed the driver getting out of the BMW alone.

Another friend in this group also said he 'walked past the BMW to look at the damage. "There was no-one on the front seat. "On the left rear window the airbag had expanded and there was no-one on the rear seat, unless it was a very tiny person hiding in the car-boot, there was no-one'. The Premier’s spokesman Xoli Mngambi however still insisted when speaking to Ms Ferreira that the MEC had been inside the car. Asked by Beeld why Mmemezi and his driver had not gone over to the badly injured Thomas Ferreira, Mngambi said: "they did not want to interfere in the CRIME SCENE...' He also refused to say what could have been so urgent for the MEC's official to rush at high speed through a red-light at the intersection with their blue-lights flashing. "It forms part of the official police-investigation and we cannot divulge that information,' Mngambi said.

Meanwhile a worker at a Krugersdorp insleepdiens, Frik Niemand, said he often parks his van at the corner of Shannon- and Voortrekker Road where Ferreira was run over. A speed-camera is installed there, and the camera records that particular BMW X5 day and night. 'The man nearly run me off the road once,' he said. Yet people are too terrified to testify against this government-driver in court about his allegedly bullying, high-speed behaviour in traffic. "If people don't get out of his way, he blasts away on his car-horn, curses and shouts. He recognised the driver from pictures published in Beeld. "He often drives on Voortrekker Road and he NEVER drives slowly,' he emphasized.

http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Gn-arres-nadat-seun-omgery-is-20111110
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http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2011/11/nov4-gruesome-murders-mutilations-rapes.html
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-afrikaners-killed-1-injured-by.html
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“Shopowner George Santos borrowed police’s bullet-proof vest and caught the burglars himself”

On 1 June 2009, Mr George Santos’ shop was broken into north of De Wildt. A strange event then followed, and it was actually recorded on Santos’ own security cameras.
On this video, it can be clearly seen how nine burly police officers of Mmakau simply refused to enter the building. It’s also seen on this video that Santos then borrows one of the police officers’ bullet-proof vests and walks into his shop to confront the burglars himself.

• Nine police officers – too cowardly to do their jobs. These suspects were arrested only due to Santos’ own initiative but have since then already been released on bail.
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Police tell the public to police themselves…
• Alas police strategies has all but divorced itself from the aforementioned and it is evident that demands are constantly being made upon the public to police themselves and use the SAPS as a reporting mechanism with the police adopting a predominantly reactive role.

Many communities are not very cooperative with the police in the first instance as they perceive the police as a joke when they view the physical attributes of some police men and women, their inability to exercise literacy skills and the polices general reluctance to respond to complaints.

It is interesting to note that Ask Afrika’s Orange Index gave the S A Police Service a zero percent rating whilst private security companies achieved a 60.71% rating. http://www.askafrika.co.za/metho_orange.htm

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‘Teach the white man a lesson’ – police told the criminals in the holding cell:

Peter Wheeler murder in Grabouw cell – Like James Brown, building contractor Peter Wheeler also was murdered in a police cell - kicked and beaten to death while in custody in Grabouw. According to reports the arresting police officers had even told the black criminals from Pollsmoor Prison who were in the same cell waiting to attend their trials the next day, to “teach the white man a lesson.”

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Whites dying in police custody:



13 July 2008 - Picture: Alzheimer sufferer James Frederick Brown, 69 , left, was overwhelmed by an angry black mob at a Kriel supermarket after the confused old Afrikaner had forgotten to pay for a chocolate bar. He was taken intact to a Kriel police cell without any apparent injuries. Yet despite repeated attempts by relatives to explain his medical condition to the police -- and to try and get him out of the police holding cell and released into their custody, this defenceless old man was found beaten to death the next morning with these fresh, hook-shaped head wounds and other bruises to his face.

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20090415
Pretoria cop arrested in armed robbery

Pretoria-Central police station’s law court orderly arrested after an armed robbery in Erasmia…

Apr 14 2009 -- Fanie van Rooyen of Beeld newspaper reports that a police officer who works at the Pretoria-Central police station was arrested minutes after he was spotted running away with two other armed men after they had attacked a woman and her child at her home in Theron Street, demanding money.

The cop was arrested by two neighbours across the street after he and two armed men had just fled from trying to rob the family at 9am. Captain Tessa Jansen said the owner of the attacked home was attacked when she was inside with her child and a housekeeper.

Builders were working at the house - and thus when the men knocked on the door, the woman had opened the door and was immediately held at gunpoint.
• The men pushed the woman and her child into a bedroom, demanding money. However she grabbed her child, rushed off, locked herself into a bathroom and then started screaming loudly for help from the barred bathroom window.
The robbers then ran off - however a neighbour's 16-year-old son spotted one man running away after hearing the woman's cries for help, and chased after him, immediately joined by an adult family member.

The two males grabbed the escaping alleged robber and sat down on top of him, waiting for the armed-reaction unit which the victim had alerted with an emergency button.

The arrested man, who had two handguns with him when arrested, told armed-response security guards, who had been the first to respond to the emergency call, that 'he was being falsely accused by the community, that he was a cop.'
Captain Jansen said he was taken to Erasmia police station, where he was arrested after police questioned everyone concerned. Also arrested was the victim's housekeeper - after it was found by the police that she knew one of the three robbers.
• The other two are still at large, but police have meanwhile brought the policeman and the housekeeper up for charges, and they will appear in the Atteridge magistrate's court on Thursday, April 16.
• http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2501183,00.html

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20110823
Afrikaans journalists battered

Afrikaans journo Yolanda Barnard of Sondag: ‘The four cops told me they pulled me over because I was white,' she said… Afrikaans news-photographer Craig Nieuwenhuizen was bashed, kicked and beaten by security guards at the Unisa campus while investigating a story on Tuesday.



Jacques Steenkamp of Beeld newspaper writes that Afrikaans journalist Yolanda Barnard, 32, entertainment-reporter for Sondag tabloid, suffered a cracked nose-bone when she was battered in the face by a black policewoman on Sunday-afternoon Aug 22 2011. She has lodged charges at Midrand police station. Miss Barnard had just left the 'Liedjieboer-Kroeg', an Afrikaans entertainment venue at Olifantsfontein Road in Midrand, on Sunday at 4:15pm. She had spent the afternoon with entertainers Kurt Darren, DJ Ossewa and others to celebrate singer Pieter Smith's birthday.

"I had a few drinks but also had a lot to eat,' she said. "I drove myself because I was not drunk. About a block away from the venue I was pulled over by four black police members. I asked them why they pulled me over specifically, and they said 'because you are white,' she said. The four cops, three men and a woman, ordered her to follow them and the four cops climbed back into their minibus. She followed them in her car because she believed they would just go to the nearest police station. However instead they stopped in a quiet dead-end street, demanded her driver's license and her keys.

"I wanted to know again why they pulled me over and the woman said 'because you are drunk.' I asked them to do a breathaliser test right there and then -- because I know I was not drunk. The black female cop then battered me in the face. 'Ms Barnard was then grabbed by her arms and legs by the police woman and a male cop, and they carried her to the minibus. The other two black male cops stood there and laughed at her humiliation. "I then told them that I was a journalist, and they suddenly dropped me right there on the tarmac. I jumped up and locked myself into my car."

An hour later, after posting at her car all that time, the four cops apparently decided they'd had enough and they all got back into the minivan. Ms Barnard then climbed out and pleaded with them to give her back her driver's license and keys. They threw her belongings on the ground from the bus. She never was charged with anything. "I am now terrified of the police. How can anyone trust them after such an incident?" she said. She was examined by a doctor who confirmed her suspicion that a bone may have been cracked in her nose. Editor of Sondag newspaper Peet Bothma said the newspaper takes a very strong stand against police cruelty and assaults, just as any other newspaper should also do. "We support Yolanda completely in lodging her criminal charges, as well as the civil claim she will be lodging,' he said. SAPS captain Agnes Huma confirmed that the journalist lodged formal charges of assault and intimidation against the specific police members involved.
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Pretoria Police Brutality-Edited


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Mrs Naomi Harmse cursed as 'white bitch', beaten with fist by black Vanderbijlpark cop



2011-08-25 - A black police officer at Vanderbijlpark who attempted to take a cellphone from Mrs Naomi Harmse, cursed her for a 'white bitch,' assaulted her in the charge office, sat on top of her and pummeled her in the face with a fist. Beeld journalist Riata Nel interviewed and photographed the terrified woman after her ordeal. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vrou-glo-geslaan-in-polisiekantoor-20110825

Mrs Naomi Harmse (28) was driving on Faraday Street in Vanderbijlpark on Friday-night with a male friend at 23:15 enroute home when rubbish on the road when she was forced off the road by a car - and this caused a burst tyre. Just as they were being forced off the road a car stopped behind them. "I thought it was the car which had forced us off the road and asked the male person why he had done this.' Then a number of other unknown black men exited the car behind them - and descended on the white couple's car. They plucked her friend from her car and started dragging him away while she tried to stop them from attacking him. But the local police then showed up and arrested the Afrikaans couple. At the charge office she was forbidden to make any calls, even though she was being arrested allegedly for assault - and had the legal right to call her lawyer to arrange for bail.

"I had hidden my cellphone so that I could call for help to get me out, but it rang and the cop at the charge office demanded that I give him my cellphone. I refused,' she said. "The next moment he was on top of me, threw me from the chair to the ground, sat on me, beat me with a fist in my face, called me a white bitch,' she said. Her friend dragged the black policeman off her. The couple remained in custody all weekend, and appeared in court on Monday on 'assault charges' and released on their own cognisance. She has lodged a formal charge against the police officer, confirmed warrant/officer Kinnie Steyn, who also confirmed the couple's arrest. It’s not known if a court-date was set for the ‘assault charge’.

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Crime victims get penalised:

The question one must ask is the following: how can a society function effectively when productive people are penalised whenever they turn to the police to try and get crimes solved, while suspects are handled with kid-gloves?
If the police and the state’s sympathies lie with the criminals – as it increasingly appears to be – there’s certainly a screw lose. Because what is happening in De Wildt, is not unique, according to the many news reports.
Can South Africa really afford to lose the trust placed in our judicial system by economically-productive citizens?

- Beeld http://www.beeld.com/Content/In-Diepte/1978/56bd33e2942441059e189e93c24a00ad/25-09-2009-01-57/Wanneer_polisie_nie_daar_is_vir_jou

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Deaths in South African police custody rose to 912 in 2009

Cape Town – Deaths in police custody rose to 912 in 2009.. This is according to a press release on 26 September 2009 by the Independent Complaints Directorate. But the ICD says while these deaths had risen “from 791 the previous year’ , this fact “could not be read as a sign of an increase in police misconduct”. The directorate’s Francois Beukman says when considering the cases carried over from the previous year, the ICD had just more than 11,190 cases to deal with. According to the Mail and Guardian of Feb 13 2008, More than 800 KZN cops were under investigation for crimes ranging from assault through to rape and murder
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Attacker was caught, then was allowed to escape from police custody:

It is believed that the attacker was caught, then escaped before he could be brought to the Pretoria North court on 31 October 2011 at 10am. Medical personnel have urged colleagues and friends to meet at the magistrate's court in Pretoria North on Monday from 09h45 to 010h15 to protest against the girl's torture-ordeal."Make a poster with impact, protest against this brutality,' said one of the medical staffers. Until the attacker is re-captured, this plan will have to be put on hold, however. Police have been slow to issue a description for the fugitive torturer.
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Tuesday, 1 November 2011
BOKSBURG METRO-COP ARRESTS JOURNO MICHAEL FERGUSON
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Benoni City Times journalist Michael Ferguson was investigating complaints of police-brutality when he was arrested…




28 October 2011 – An investigation into the conduct of an unidentified Daveyton EMPD police officer is being conducted by their own internal 'Integrity and Standards Unit’ after City Times journalist Michael Ferguson was illegally arrested while investigating charges of police-brutality against a local resident. After local community leaders intervened, Ferguson was released and the formal charges of (sic:) Ferguson of ‘interference to and officer performing his duty and taking him a photo’, were dropped.

- The ridiculous charge against the journalist was dropped after local community-leaders intervened: Is this a legal charge anyway? “Interference to and officer performing his duty and taking him a photo’ (sic)
Michael Ferguson: ‘interference to and officer performing his duty and taking him a photo…’
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City Times journalist Sandile van Heerden writes that 'the officer in question could face charges of intimidation and unlawful arrest, among others." The arrest occurred after the City Times received a call to report police brutality at the intersection of Bunyan Street and Lake Avenue in the Benoni CBD late on Thursday morning.
Hostile cop freaked out when Ferguson took photographs:

“When City Times journalist Michael Ferguson arrived at the scene he approached the officer in question, but was ignored until he began taking photographs.
"The officer was hostile and treated me as if I did not exist," he said. "When I started taking photographs he completely freaked out. He was shouting and screaming and he and his partner grabbed me, ripped my camera out of my hands, handcuffed me and threw me in the back of their van."

Ferguson was apprehended by the officer in question and his ‘partner’, who was however not a member of the Boksburg metropolitan-police force, but instead apparently is a member of the regular Daveyton SAPD instead.
Ferguson’s camera was confiscated, he was handcuffed and was placed in the back of a small van -- where he then was held for three and a half hours.
A member of the community alerted the newspaper again- this time to warn them that their journalist had been arrested.

Ferguson was trying to cover a ‘struggle between a staff member at a business and a police officer over a parking row’

It is reported that the officer and his partner had an argument with the owner of a nearby business regarding one of their trucks parked in the road. It was also reported that a struggle between a staff member of the business and the officer ensued, resulting in the staff member's shirt being ripped open.
Boksburg Metro-police chief Superintendent Jacques Vorster “was not his boss’ said the black metro-cop

The City Times, members of the community policing forum, SAPS and ward councillor Mary Goby all attended the scene to see what was happening. The officer in question, dressed in an EMPD T-shirt, refused to identify himself to the City Times and other community members. He also refused to take a call from the EMPD's head in Benoni, Supt Jacques Voster, saying; "He is not my boss."

Sandile van Heerden noted that the only comment the officer had on Ferguson’s arrest, was that he ‘was being detained for "interfering", but he would not elaborate. Van Heerden: “Ferguson was then taken to the Benoni Police Station by the officer, to have charges laid against him. CEO of the Benoni citizen-policing-forum Reza Patel then arrived on the scene and in turn contacted Boksburg metropolitian police chief-superintendent Hennie Erasmus of the Integrity and Standards Unit, to request his assistance in the matter. Erasmus arrived and took contact details from those on the scene, including the officer, and promised to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter.

The metro-cop’s partner later vanished and according to Van Heerden, ‘is said to be a member of the Daveyton SAPS. Erasmus reportedly said that ‘the accomplice will not be investigated by the EMPD, but will, instead, be reported to the SAPS.”

The charges against Ferguson: "Interference to, and [sic] officer performing his duty and taking him a photo," were later dropped.

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‘Police-officers using police-vehicles to do their shopping’ :
-- Speaking on the number of officers seen using police vehicles to do shopping, Bill, also a resident, asked the station commander what was being done to monitor officers and how he can get members of the EMPD to be outside schools in the area to protect the children from speeding parents.

“We have the AVL which in your language is a tracker but we call it AVL. If you see a motor vehicle parked at the road side in the wrong place you can phone us,” Lt Col Mailula.

-- Bill also asked how he can get members of the EMPD to be outside schools in the area to protect the children from speeding parents when there is always a group of officers pulling people over for talking on their cellular telephones just a few blocks away. His second question was answered by Superintendent Gwen Gina from the metropolitan-police, the EMPD. “One of the duties of the EMPD is to enforce the National Road Traffic Act and this remains one of our major duties. We help the SAPS on operations too,” Supt Gina said.

-- Lindsay, a 21-year-old Edenvale resident, said that she would like to know how she can help as a 21-year-old in the community. “Yes we pay taxes but we are not involved in helping out,” Lindsay said. Mr Quintine Ndaba from the MEC for Community Safety’s Office said that in his view ‘one cannot just smile if they are a prisoner in their own homes: We cannot criticise without assistance. Your role as the EMPD is not only traffic laws but also visible policing and crime prevention,” he said in response to Supt Gina.

-- I feel safer living in Soweto… the area of Edenvale is under siege: One resident then stood up to correct Mr Ndaba, saying that every time she needed assistance, the metro police were there – but not the SAPS. “The SAPS is busy picking up and dropping off people. They are a taxi service while the EMPD was there to assist,” the resident said. Mr Ndaba replied: “We are all touched by the murders. In the words of the MEC, the area of Edenvale is under siege,” Mr Ndaba said while the residents applauded. “If you do not get help, come to my department,” he urged. “I live in Soweto and feel safer living in Soweto. Do you know why? Because we as a community joined hands and said enough is enough. “Know your neighbour. If something happens they must be able to assist,” he added.

Before the closing of the meeting, Lt Col Roberts addressed the community. “I do not live in Edenvale. I live in Kempton Park. I also do not know when I will receive the call that my house was broken into. So I have put security measures in place. “Everyone reads about the murders but did you read the crime tips published in the Bedfordview Edenvale NEWS? The crime tips are not simply sucked out of our thumbs they are based on crime trends in the area,” Lt Col Roberts said. He added the SAPS has regular operations to ensure the safety of the community.
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