Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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Woman gets R200k for 3 days in jail

2012-06-28 12:10


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Pretoria - The South African Police Service has been told to pay a woman R200 000 after she was unnecessarily locked up for three days on the basis of accusations her ex-boyfriend made.

The Pretoria News reported that her son and father would receive R25 000 each as they too were locked up overnight.

The court said police should not simply have accepted the statement made by Gabor Victor Cost, who claimed that he had been the victim of attempted murder, robbery and theft. 

The court said it was clear this was a domestic dispute and a civil matter. The case against Roslind Fletcher-Morgan, her father Chris Morgan and son, Gareth Schutte, was thrown out in court.

Her ordeal started with the break-up of her relationship with Cost. Her father and son helped her move things from his house, and were assisted by a friend who at one stage slapped Cost, but was then restrained by the others. 

Cost later laid charges of robbery and accused his ex of stealing his car, even though she was a part owner and he knew she had it, said the court. Police officers also arrested Morgan and her family although Cost never claimed they had assaulted him. 

The judge said police had clearly not applied their minds to the case and awarded damages to the plaintiffs.




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The Star Newspaper 23 January 2013

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 Man dies after cops' torture - IPID

2012-09-14 07:23


 

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Johannesburg - A Pretoria man died after being tortured allegedly at the hands of police, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said on Thursday.

The 28-year-old man was picked up by police in Ga-Rankuwa on Wednesday and was taken to the Chamdor police station, where the alleged torture took place, said spokesperson Moses Dlamini in a statement.

It was unknown why he was taken to the station.

Dlamini said after the incident, the man was taken to the Leratong Hospital but was declared dead.
A post mortem would be carried out soon.

No arrests had been made yet.
- SAPA





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Mom, daughter sue cops for R3.2m
2012-12-04 11:05



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Cape Town - A Western Cape mother and daughter want over R3.2m in damages after police apparently shot them and then arrested them.

The Cape Times reported on Tuesday that Felicia Mafumana, 47, and Thabisa Mafumana, 24, were shot during a fracas in Philippi on 24 February 2006.

It is believed a young couple and police officers got into an altercation in Chris Hani street that evening, with residents gathering around to criticise the way the officers were behaving.

Court papers alleged that a policewoman drew her weapon and fired a few shots into the crowd. Two bullets hit Thabisa, fracturing her left thigh bone.

Her mother ran towards the noise and was shot and wounded in the stomach.

While they were being treated, they were placed under arrest for public violence, but were later released on warnings.

The pair reportedly appeared in the Western Cape High Court on Monday, where the defendant, the office of the Minister of Safety and Security, asked for the matter to be postponed.

The matter would be argued later on Tuesday.
- SAPA



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PE man gets damages from copsPE 
2012-12-21 10:24



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Port Elizabeth - The Eastern Cape High Court has ordered the minister of police to pay R110 000 in damages to a man for invasion of privacy and assault, according to a report on Friday.

The judgment related to a case involving Thobela Julius Funde, who was assaulted by two police officers when his Kwadwesi home was raided five years ago, The Star reported.

The officers claimed they went to Funde's home at midnight to search for dagga after receiving a tip-off.
During the raid, his wife and child were sent to another room in the house, and Funde was handcuffed and made to lie down on the floor.

One of the officers produced a plastic glove and put it over Funde's head, with the result that he could not breathe. He lost consciousness and the glove was taken off and he was revived with water.

The process was repeated and continued for between 30 minutes to an hour.

He was also pressed down, causing the handcuffs to hurt his wrists.

He spent a long weekend in jail then opened an assault case.

The court found Funde's version more reliable and that the officers' action was a serious invasion of privacy, and the assault severe.

The judgment must be sent to the minister of police and to the police's national commissioner.
- SAPA





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Western Cape cop held for rape
2012-11-14 07:25



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Johannesburg - A Western Cape police captain has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman to whom he was giving a lift home, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said on Tuesday.

Spokesperson Moses Dlamini said the policeman saw the 30-year-old woman walking home at 05:00 on Sunday after visiting a friend and offered her a lift. They lived in the same street, he said.

They first went to his house to make a phone call, but once there, the policeman allegedly fondled her, then raped her. She later went to the police.

Dlamini said the policeman was arrested in Robertson on Monday and appeared in court on Tuesday, when he was released on bail of R1 000. The case was postponed until December 13.
- SAPA



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KZN cops ignore nearby rape - report
2012-08-22 12:46

 

Durban - Police in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal, claimed they could not attend to an attempted rape complaint one block from their police station because of a lack of transport, according to a report on Wednesday.

The Witness reported that on Saturday, Mthonjaneni Municipality protection services manager Derek Horne heard the screams of two girls and reported the matter to police.

Local police said they could not respond to the complaint because there was no police car available.

Horne apparently told the charge office that an attempted rape was taking place only a block from the police station, but could get no undertaking from police that they would investigate.

Horne resolved to help the girls himself.

"I walked through an open security gate into the building, heading for the source of the screams and saw two young girls, I estimate about 12 years and 16 years old. They had been tied to cement windows, with rope around their hands, and two young men were attempting to rape them," Horne was quoted as saying.

The perpetrators ran off, and Horne helped the traumatised girls.

Captain Tienkie van Vuuren, spokesperson for Eshowe police, said an internal investigation would be launched into the matter.
- SAPA






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Police rape case not on court roll
2011-12-12 19:11

Johannesburg - Two police sergeants will appear in the Alexandra Magistrate's Court on Tuesday for allegedly raping a woman, the Independent Complaints Directorate said.

"The officers were expected to appear in the Alexandra Magistrate's Court today [Monday], but they could not as the matter was not put on the court roll," spokesperson Moses Dlamini said.

Earlier in the day, provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Tshisikhawe Ndou said the two were to appear in the Randburg Magistrate's Court later.

The policemen, aged 28 and 43, were arrested last week and made their first court appearance on Thursday. The matter was then postponed for a formal bail application to be heard.

Ndou said the victim was allegedly stopped by the officers in Fourways, north of Johannesburg, while they were on duty on Friday December 2.

"She was pulled out of the front seat to the back seat where the officers allegedly took turns to rape her."
The woman laid a charge against the police that Saturday and the two were arrested.

- SAPA




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"The year 2011 was marred by stories of police officers sexually assaulting victims they were supposed to protect, this and many other stories of rampant corruption made me ashamed to be South African.
Here are a few:

A police constable has been arrested for allegedly raping an awaiting-trial prisoner at the Glendale police station on the North Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, police said on Sunday.

A police officer heard strange sounds coming from the holding cells around 4pm on Saturday and rushed in to investigate , Colonel Jay Naicker said. “He found the 32-year-old woman who told him she had just been raped by a constable at gun-point.”

Two police sergeants will appear in the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for allegedly raping a woman, the Independent Complaints Directorate said.

The policemen, aged 28 and 43, were arrested last week after allegedly raping a female motorist in Fourways, north of Johannesburg.

The victim was allegedly stopped by the officers who were on duty on Friday, December 2. According to an official police statement, she was pulled out of the front seat to the back seat where the officers allegedly took turns to rape her."


















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‘Raped’ man sues police for damages
December 6 2012 at 11:34am
By ZELDA VENTER



AFP
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Pretoria - A man from Ermelo in Mpumalanga is claiming R3.5 million in damages from the police following his harrowing ordeal when he was allegedly gang-raped by eight inmates in a Polokwane police cell after he was arrested for negligent driving, alternatively driving under the influence of alcohol.

The 30-year-old, who may not be identified, instituted the claim in the Pretoria High Court.

He was involved in an accident on January 6, 2008, after he was driving home from a friend’s place and his tyre burst. He hit a traffic light and was taken to hospital by ambulance with broken ribs and bruises.

He stated in court papers that when he was discharged from hospital a few hours later, the police waited for him outside the building and arrested him without a warrant.

According to him he was cuffed and thrown with force into the back of a police van. He stated that the cops drove the van in such a manner that he fell around in the back. He could not hold on to anything as he was cuffed and as he was already injured due to the accident, he suffered more pain and discomfort.

He begged the officers at the police station, in vain, to allow him to make a call to inform his family where he was and to call his lawyer.

He said he was thrown into a cell, with about 25 other detainees. He was raped by a group of about eight of these men, who pushed his head into a pillow to muffle his cries while they raped him. According to court papers he was repeatedly raped and assaulted in the cell.

He said no police officer came to check on what was happening in the cell and his cries for help went unanswered. He was only released the next morning when he was able to contact his lawyer, who arranged bail for him.

He had to receive antiretroviral drugs and was later told that he had not contracted HIV.

He is blaming the police for his nightmare ordeal and accused them of being negligent. His case is based on the fact that the SAPS had a legal duty to protect him while in custody.

He is also contesting the validity of his incarceration overnight, stating that there was no reason to keep him behind bars in order to ensure that he would appear in court later. (It is not clear what eventually happened to his criminal case.)

The police are alleged to have failed to establish whether the man was a flight risk or posed a risk to others before denying him his freedom.

The man said his life had been shattered by his ordeal. He suffered injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.He had lost his job, as he could no longer work, due to his mental state.

His claim included R1.5m for the injuries he suffered as a result of the rape and R1.2m for loss of income.
The police denied liability and said they had been within their rights in arresting the man as he had been suspected of drunken driving or reckless and negligent driving. It was stated that a blood sample taken from him confirmed that he was under the influence of alcohol.

It was denied that he was raped.

According to a psychologist’s report, the man has severe post-traumatic stress disorder, and the condition is becoming worse. The man has outbursts of anger, he acts in an unstable manner towards people, and he repeatedly relives his ordeal in his mind and by talking about it.

He is also upset about losing his job as a courier and about being unemployed.
The matter was postponed indefinitely.

Pretoria News


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Police captain held after rape
November 13 2012 at 08:48pm

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Western Cape - A Western Cape police captain has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman he was giving a lift home, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said on Tuesday.

Spokesman Moses Dlamini said the policeman saw the 30-year-old woman walking home at 5am on Sunday after visiting a friend and offered her a lift. They lived in the same street, he said.

They first went to his house to make a phone call, but once there, the policeman allegedly fondled her, then raped her. She later went to the police.

Dlamini said the policeman was arrested in Robertson on Monday and appeared in court on Tuesday, when he was released on bail of R1000. The case was postponed until December 13. - Sapa



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Cop accused of raping arrested woman
November 26 2012 at 11:52pm

Johannesburg - A Western Cape policeman was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping a woman at the Langebaan police station, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said.

The 53-year-old officer was taken into custody after allegedly raping the woman, 23, who had been arrested for possession of tik and Mandrax on Friday, November 16, said spokesperson Moses Dlamini.

“He took the victim out of the cells to his office. The suspect then allegedly forced the victim to perform oral sex on him,” Dlamini said.

One of the officer’s colleagues interrupted him and the woman was taken back to the cells. The officer later returned to the cell, where he allegedly raped the woman. He allegedly raped her again on Sunday.

The matter was reported to the Ipid on November 22 and the officer was arrested on Monday.
He would appear in the Langebaan Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. - Sapa




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Published on Wednesday, 01 August 2012 11:04

Three police officers and a clerk have pleaded not guilty to charges relating to the rape of a woman in the toilet of a police station and the filming of it.

Theodore Syster, Jaede Fillies, Beverly Carelse and Theo van Wyk – appeared in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. The State alleges that on June 15, 2010 Syster raped the woman in a toilet at Elsies River police station after he and Fillies “kidnapped” her and her boyfriend. Fillies had allegedly filmed part of the ordeal on a cellphone.

At the time of the incident, all of the men were police officers, with the exception of Carelse, who was an admin clerk. They face a host of charges relating to the incident, with Syster and Fillies facing seven counts each, Van Wyk three and Carelse two. In court on Wednesday, all four pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
The woman’s boyfriend, who was not present during the alleged rape, then took the stand, telling of how “powerless” they had felt at the hands of the officers. As an order of court, neither of them may be named to protect the rape survivor’s identity. He testified that he was married and that he had been having an affair with the woman.

On June 15, 2010 they bought burgers at a fast food chain before parking nearby in a dark, quiet spot in Viking Park, Elsies River. They had been kissing, he said, when an unmarked car pulled up beside them. Two uniformed policemen, Syster and Fillies, had got out. The officers had taken his girlfriend in their car, while he followed behind in his own.

At the police station, they had pleaded for the policemen to let them go, he said. However, Syster had repeatedly told him that he was going to “lock me up”. After being held in a cell for a while, he had been released, paid a R100 fine for public nuisance and was told to leave. He testified that Syster said they would drop his girlfriend off at home and that he was warned to leave before he was locked up again.

The following day, he said, she told him that Syster had raped her at the police station. It is the State’s case that while Van Wyk had known about the rape and the video, he had lied about it in a sworn statement. Syster, Fillies and Carelse had also tried to coerce the woman into dropping the rape case.

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A group of women marched from Magogo Stadium in White Location, Knysna, to the Knysna Police Station on Tuesday, August 21, to hand over a petition concerning the murder investigation of Nelisa Bantom to the Knysna SAPS station commander, Colonel Nolan Michaels.

The young woman’s body was found in her mother’s home in White Location on January 24. “It was clear that Nelisa had been killed. She was found with cloth in her mouth and a hammer [alongside the body],” read the petition.

The petition further alleged that the blood-stained clothes of the suspect were later found at the scene. According to Bantom’s aunt the murdered young woman’s sister found the suspect’s blood-stained clothes in a sports bag while she was cleaning Bantom’s room shortly after the horrific murder.

“I have accepted my sister’s death, but I cannot accept the way the law is handling the case,” said Bantom’s bereaved sister. “How is it possible that the only suspect was released even though he was the last person to be seen with my sister and his clothes were found covered with blood?” she asked Colonel Michaels during the petition handover.

Read the rest of this article by Fran Kirsten and Nwabisa Ncudwana at the Knysna-Plett Herald.




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BLACK Cops Gang - Rape White Sisters

Double rape horror
December 10 2011 at 09:30am
By Noni Mokati


INSLA
Picture: Paballo Thekiso

Two Joburg women have been left shattered. Their rapists are in jail this weekend. But the two sisters don’t know who to trust because two of the attackers were uniformed police sergeants.

“It feels as though I have nowhere to turn to. What hope is there for me... men who were supposed to protect me hurt me... they defiled me,” said Katrien* from her lawyer Ian Levitt’s Sandton office on Friday afternoon.

This week, police replaced the original investigating officer with an officer from the Independent Complaints Directors (ICD) as detectives search for a further two suspects, who the victims suspect might also be serving police officers.

Gripping her 24-year-old sister’s hand, the 27-year-old told how the two of them had been stopped on their way home from Montecasino, in the north of Joburg, last Friday night.

“Jacqueline* and I usually have lunch on Fridays. But because of my office Christmas party, we decided to meet at Montecasino after work,” she said.

Katrien said her younger sister arrived at the entertainment centre and parked her car there. They left shortly afterwards and drove to a restaurant across the road from Montecasino.

Later that evening the women, who admit they could have been over the legal drink driving limit, drove to Jacqueline’s house in a complex in Paulshof.

A police van drove up as they approached the driveway of the complex.

“Two police officers wearing uniforms approached us and asked us to get out of the car. They said they were searching for drugs and weapons. They asked us to put our hands on the car.

“They didn’t use any breathalyser nor did they threaten to arrest us,” said Katrien.
A security guard at the complex allegedly witnessed the entire stop-and-search procedure.

After the police left, Katrien dropped her sister off and immediately headed home to Fourways
She was driving on Witkoppen Road when she was again stopped by police. “They asked me to pull down my window. In that instant I noticed it was the same police officer who had stopped me outside my sister’s complex.

“He said to me that I lied to him.”

Katrien believes the officer had assumed that she lived with Jacqueline and that she wouldn’t be driving home because she had been drinking.

She claimed the one police officer leaned into her car and undid her seatbelt while the other kept watch. He pulled her out through the window and dragged her on to the back seat, where he pinned her down.
“He pulled down my pants, undid my his zip and raped me. He didn’t say anything except to call his partner (when he was finished) who did the same thing.”

Katrien, who said she had blacked out, said she came to and noticed that cars were still driving past her.
“No one helped me. I pulled my pants up and drove home.”
Her boyfriend, who declined to be named, said he helped Katrien when she staggered and collapsed at the door.

“She was hysterical when she got home. She told me she had been raped. I called her sister and found out the same thing had happened to her.”

Meanwhile, Jacqueline cried inconsolably as she recounted her ordeal.
She said she had run after Katrien’s car when she realised she had forgotten her house keys.

“My keys were in my car at Montecasino and I wanted to alert Katrien. I ran out of the complex to catch up to her. I thought she was still close by,” she said.

A few metres away stood a red Opel Cadet.

Jacqueline said two men jumped out and grabbed her.

“The one wore a red shirt and the other beige pants. They dragged me to the long grass. The young one raped me from the front and the older one turned me around and raped me from behind. I hardly remember what happened after that,” she sobbed.

Jacqueline’s boyfriend, Freddy*, came looking for her after he was phoned about Katrien’s attack. “We couldn’t find her (Jacqueline) in the complex. We looked in the streets and finally found her hiding in the bushes. She was shaken up and quivering with fear,” he said.

The two sisters were rushed to Olivedale Hospital in Randburg where rape kits were administered by medical personnel to capture evidence of the sexual attack.

“I don’t understand why they did this to us. Why did they bother Jacqueline? If it was about the alcohol, she was not driving. I was,” sobbed Katrien.

On Friday, the sisters’ mother challenged the arrested officers to tell the truth. “I want them to tell us who the other guys are. They know where they are.

“I want to fix this. It’s every mother’s job to fix things. But how do I fix my babies?” she cried.
ICD spokesman Moses Dlamini said the department would investigate the matter, and urged the National Director of Public Prosecution to prosecute if investigators could prove a case against them.

On Friday night, Gauteng MEC for Community Safety Faith Mazibuko condemned the rapes, saying if the officers were responsible, they had to be punished.

On Friday night her spokesman, Thapelo Moiloa, said the department needed to emphasise that the abuse of women and children was not acceptable. “We have appealed to victims not to come out during 16 Days (of No Violence Against Women and Children), but throughout the year to report their cases.”

He said the MEC and her officials had been speaking to women across the province on their rights and how not to become victims.

ANC Women’s League spokeswoman Troy Martens said it was unacceptable that women were unsafe in the hands of the police. “Every rape of any woman in SA is unacceptable and should be condemned. 
Especially when women are meant to be protected by the police. We hope justice takes its cause as this is a bad reflection for the South African police.”

The two police sergeants will appear at the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court on Monday for a formal hearing.
*Not their real names - Saturday Star



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.South African Police are RAPING,CORRUPT,USELESS animals ! .

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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Black cops assault white driver
Friday January 25 2013

These are the people responsible for law and order in South Africa.  They are inept at controlling "protesting" (read marauding and looting) crowds burning down shops because of municipalities being consolidated (caused by more inept and corrupt behaviour of the ANC in the first place), but they have resources to victimise an innocent driver.

The fact that all charges were dropped against the driver the next day is all evidence you need that he wasn't guilty of anything in the first place.


On another note we have been pestered by the ANC-loving, brain dead demented chicken the last few days.  We are being accused of hating blacks - nothing new from this piece of filth acknowledging his use of hard drugs.  We suggest you drive to your local police station Mr Zombie Chicken - we are confident you will find real hate there.
from News 24:





Johannesburg - A Germiston man has laid charges with police after he was allegedly assaulted by two police officers in front of his hysterical toddlers.

Bruce Swart told Beeld how he had been driving back from dinner with friends with his fiancée Natashia van Zyl and their sons Jayden, 4, and Justin, 2, when he was pulled over by two members of the dog unit.

 “They pulled me from my vehicle and threw me against the pavement. One of the men’s hands was around my neck. It felt like I was being strangled,” said Swart.

He said: “Both the men were very aggressive and arrogant. They asked to see my driver’s licence…I shook a lot and asked if I could just drive back to my friends’ house to look for my wallet.”

The officers agreed but at the gate of the security complex the men got out of the car and started assaulting him. 

His oldest son, Jayden, started screaming hysterically.

“I tried to calm him down but he was just really scared. It probably looked to him like they were killing his dad,” said Swart’s fiancée.

She said both of their sons were traumatised by the incident.

Swart was arrested on charges of reckless driving and possession of a stolen vehicle, even when Swart tried to convince them that his car’s registration documents were in the cubby hole. 
(glove compartment)

Swart said R400 was taken from his wallet.

CCTV footage from the security complex showed how the police officers searched the car and looked at Swart’s driver’s licence as well as car registration papers.

All charges against Swart were dropped the following day.

A police spokesperson said the incident was being investigated


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Cop cars to be sold to pay damages
2011-09-01 21:51

Johannesburg - Five cars belonging to the Siyabuswa police station in Mpumalanga will be removed and possibly auctioned off on Friday to pay a victim of unlawful and malicious arrest.

The sheriff of the Mkobola and Mdutjana Magistrate's Courts would remove the cars, worth an estimated R800 000, to pay damages to John Bossie Mahlangu following his arrest in June, his lawyer Msebenzi Masombuka said on Thursday.

Mahlangu was arrested on his wedding day and detained for four days after police accused him of being in possession of stolen cattle.

Mahlangu said he had given his cousin, John Masilela, R9 000 that week to buy two cows for him as part of ilobola.

Masilela however stole the cattle and delivered them to Mahlangu.

He argued in court there was no way he could have known the animals were stolen because Masilela normally bought and sold cattle.

He told the Times Live website he was assaulted by inmates and slept on the floor in jail without blankets and pillows.

He said he attended court several times. Charges against him were eventually withdrawn as police failed to link him to the crime.

On June 10 Mahlangu successfully sued Police Minister Nathi Mtethwa for R210 000.

- SAPA

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Cop in trouble over sex with prostitute

July 11 2011 at 07:21am
By Karabo Seanego
Reuters

A police constable from the Edenvale police station is facing an internal disciplinary hearing – but no criminal charges – after he allegedly had sex with a prostitute and then refused to pay, claiming he was an officer from the Sunnyside police station.
This comes only a few days after a massive raid was carried out in Sunnyside and Arcadia to clamp down on prostitution in the areas.
It is alleged the constable and the prostitute had sex in one of the Bryans Court flats in Sunnyside that were raided. It is alleged that after he refused to pay her, she called her pimps to deal with the matter.
Police spokesman Warrant Officer Duane Lightfoot said the police were called in and that while the officer had been escorted to the police station, he was not detained.
“When she asked him to pay, he refused and threatened to arrest her. She then contacted some Nigerian men who kept the constable at the block of flats. The Sunnyside police were called and the constable was taken to the police station,” he said.
Lightfoot said the officer went back to his place in Edenvale that night as he was not facing criminal charges. He added that a formal report would be forwarded to the commander of Edenvale police station, so that internal disciplinary procedures for serious misconduct could start against the officer.
“Brigadier (Fred) Kekana (Sunnyside police station head) would like members of the community to know that there are some policemen who sometimes get involved in various crimes in Sunnyside, but they are not necessarily members of the Sunnyside police station,” said Lightfoot.
* Meanwhile, a businessman from KwaZulu-Natal was allegedly hijacked at gunpoint by three men in Sunnyside. The businessman – who was with a friend and a woman the two had just met – was about to go into the woman’s flat when three armed men approached.
“As they arrived at the flat and, just before entering, they were approached by three gunmen in their late twenties, who forced them all into the complainant’s vehicle at gunpoint.
“The attackers then drove off with them in the direction of Mamelodi. The complainant was dropped off somewhere on the road to Cullinan, where he was later found by members of the Cullinan police.
“He was taken to the Cullinan police station, where he opened a case of hijacking,” said Lightfoot.
The friend and the woman were left in Mamelodi, but rejoined the complainant later the same evening at Sunnyside.
Lightfoot said the suspects, who are still at large, got away with the complainant’s car, a Volkswagen Golf, and three cellphones. - Pretoria News
Cullinan police.
“He was taken to the Cullinan police station, where he opened a case of hijacking,” said Lightfoot.
The friend and the woman were left in Mamelodi, but rejoined the complainant later the same evening at Sunnyside.

Lightfoot said the suspects, who are still at large, got away with the complainant’s car, a Volkswagen Golf, and three cellphones. - Pretoria News





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Police station set alight
January 17 2012 at 08:39pm


North West police were investigating a case of arson after the Bethanie satellite police station was set alight.
Damage caused by the fire, which started in the early hours of Sunday morning, was estimated at R20,000, spokeswoman Captain Tselane Nkala said on Tuesday.
“Two police officials, who were on duty, went to patrol and when they came back they found the satellite station burning. The front windows were broken, the door was on fire and the front ceiling was also on fire.”
Police suspected local residents who were involved in a march last week, during which tyres were burnt and stones thrown, could have started the blaze, as a tyre was found on the premises.
No arrests had been made. - Sapa
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Electricity cut off to police stations
2012-03-22 11:37

Polokwane - Two police stations in Limpopo are in the dark after their electricity was cut off due to non-payment of services.

Makhado police station and the Supply Chain Services in Polokwane have been without power for days, the Times reported.

The department of public works has been blamed for failing to pay the electricity bill.

The Limpopo police headquarters may be next to face a power cut.

Officers at the Makhado police station were reportedly using use gas lamps.

The problem appeared to be an administrative issue between police management and the public works department.

Officials said they were working on resolving the matter.

News24.com

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Cop in court on robbery charge
January 15 2013 at 02:11pm
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Kuruman - The commander of the Wrenchville police station in Kuruman appeared in the Mothibistad Magistrate's Court on robbery charges on Tuesday.
Police spokesman Lieutenant Olebogeng Tawana said the case against Captain Anna Phorotlho, 42, was postponed to January 21 for a formal bail application.
She will remain in custody.
Phorotlho was arrested in connection with several robberies at foreign-owned shops in the Wrenchville area last year.
She was allegedly identified by the robbers as the one who transported them to the shops and apparently also supplied them with a firearm for a robbery on January 3, 2012.
Four alleged robbers were caught by residents and assaulted after a robbery at a shop in Khankhudung at the time.
One of the men later died in hospital from his injuries.
Police seized a firearm belonging to the state, air time vouchers and an unknown amount of cash from the robbers.
Phorotlho was arrested at her office at the police station on Monday. - Sapa

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Alex cop nabbed over docket bribe


FILE: A generic picture of an unidentified member of the South African Police Service. Picture: Sapa.
01 December 2012

JOHANNESBURG – Police arrested an officer in Alexandra on Friday, after he allegedly accepted a bribe of R10,000 to destroy a docket.

The 42-year-old officer, who was based in the docket store, is accused of accepting a bribe from a man allegedly involved in a house robbery and hijacking case.

He was apprehended when the money was transferred to his account.

The Hawks Paul Ramaloko says the officer faces charges of corruption when he appears in court on Monday.

(Edited by Lynne O'Connor)