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Marikana Miners in Cold Blood
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Outrage after cop caught on camera 'manhandling' Cape woman
Cape
Town - South African Police (SAPS) officers based at the Milnerton Police
Station have come under fire after a video showing a woman being manhandled
went viral.
The incident unfolded
last month at Canal Walk following an alleged altercation between the woman and
officers.
In the video, a police
officer can be seen holding up the woman's top, exposing her bra, while calling
for back-up. It remains unclear why the officer was doing this.
In a post on
Facebook, Prudence McPherson explained that her ordeal unfolded after
police officers instructed her to move.
"After I asked him
to not demand but instead ask me to move, he blew his top!
"I literally went
through police brutality: pulled by my arm, dragged on a brick floor, slammed
against the police van, forced into the van, shaken to the point of
unconsciousness, just pulled along vigorously wherever he went... n eventually
was choked by my own hoodie while standing half naked. (Suffered some bruising)
"When his backup
arrived, five male officers, with no knowledge of what had just happened
(confessing to it as well), threw my a** in their van.
She then added that: I
slept at Milnerton police station that night. Did fingerprints n 'mugshots'
[and] was to appear in court on March 7, 2018 but after prosecutors examined
his statement and then my video, his [officer] story* did not add up n my case
was thrown out".
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CORRUPT POLICE HIRE OUT STATE CARS TO RESIDENTS
By Staff
Reporter March 8, 2016
So he stopped a passing police van and the cops allegedly agreed to help him for a fee of R250.
However, the 31-year-old, who didn’t want to be named, had no idea residents of Jeppestown would be infuriated when they saw the cops moving the bed from the shop in Booysens, Joburg.
Jeppestown resident Musa Sithole said it was not the first time he’d seen police doing private jobs in state cars.
“There are two police bakkies that transport goods for people in the area,” he claimed.
The owner of the bed said he had met the cops while he was buying furniture.
“I have heard of people using the police to move goods. The cops charge a reasonable fee compared to people with private bakkies.”
However, he said he was only expecting to pay R100.
“I felt robbed by the men of the law,” he said.
Resident Sandile Mbuli (36) said: “When you report a crime the police tell you there are no cars, but they’re out there using the vans to transport people’s belongings.”
Police spokesman Warrant Officer Richard Munyai said the bakkie was taking a bed to their social crime prevention office.
“If residents have a complaint, they are urged to report the matter to the police.”
Daily Sun
Monday, January 27, 2020
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COPS BUST FOR BRIBERY
Phuti Raletjena
13 April 2017
TWO policewomen were arrested in Polokwane on Tuesday for allegedly
asking a woman for a bribe.
The suspects apparently demanded R2 000 from the undocumented foreigner,
who had given them some cash.
Both suspects, as well as their alleged victim, are women.
The woman apparently promised that her husband would deposit the money
and settle the balance, but the police were informed.
The cops were arrested by the Hawks at the Mall of the North just after
getting the money they had allegedly demanded from the woman.
Limpopo Hawks spokesman Captain Matimba Maluleke said when the cops
demanded the money, the woman told her husband, who alerted the police.
“The husband then deposited the money and after they had the money, the
Hawks arrested them.
Maluleke said they cannot tolerate corrupt officials in service who do
not do the country justice. “We want to send a clear message to government
officials who continue corrupt activities that their day will come. We are
going to arrest them and ensure we are left with only law-abiding officials. We
will not stop until we squeeze crime to zero.
“The two officers will be appearing in Seshego Magistrates Court on
charges of corruption soon.”
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Career for sale for ninety
rand?
2014-08-11
07:39
JOHANNESBURG,
Gauteng - A Johannesburg metro police officer has been arrested for soliciting
a bribe from a woman driver whom he stopped in Fourways, north of the city,
early on Saturday morning (August 9).
A police spokesman said: "At about 3am the corrupt officer stopped the female driver and established that she had consumed alcohol. He told her to withdraw money from an ATM.
"She withdrew R90 and then went to complain to the Douglasdale police, who photographed the cash and watched from a distance as she handed it over to the officer."
INTERNAL AFFAIRS PROBE
Minnaar said the 43-year-old officer was immediately arrested. He is expected to appear in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Monday (August 11 2014) on charges of corruption.
The internal affairs section of the Johannesburg metro police department has also launched an investigation.
Minnaar said people should call the JMPD corruption hotline if they were stopped, pulled over and asked for a bribe by officers.
Have you experienced bribery/corruption when dealing with the South African police force? Email us and we'll publish your thoughts on Wheels24.
A police spokesman said: "At about 3am the corrupt officer stopped the female driver and established that she had consumed alcohol. He told her to withdraw money from an ATM.
"She withdrew R90 and then went to complain to the Douglasdale police, who photographed the cash and watched from a distance as she handed it over to the officer."
INTERNAL AFFAIRS PROBE
Minnaar said the 43-year-old officer was immediately arrested. He is expected to appear in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Monday (August 11 2014) on charges of corruption.
The internal affairs section of the Johannesburg metro police department has also launched an investigation.
Minnaar said people should call the JMPD corruption hotline if they were stopped, pulled over and asked for a bribe by officers.
Have you experienced bribery/corruption when dealing with the South African police force? Email us and we'll publish your thoughts on Wheels24.
SAPA
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Report on South
African Police ServiceBlack Cop
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
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IPD Accuses South African
Police Service of Unlawfully Classifying Files to Cover....[UP?]
Clicking on the link
iafrica.com it says
Oops! That
page can’t be found.
I wonder why?
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Gauteng
police dismissed 66 police officers
African News Agency (ANA)
October 9, 2016
Gauteng police have dismissed 66 police officers
between April and September this year, in an effort to deal with corruption,
police said on Sunday.
“Forty-two of these officers were dismissed for
being involved in criminal acts including corruption, robbery, theft, attempted
murder, housebreaking and theft, kidnapping, hijacking and possession of stolen
motor vehicles,” spokesperson Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said.
“As bad elements are a burden to the police and the
community, police will continue to deal effectively with corrupt and criminal
elements in the service.”
Out of the dismissals, 17 of the police officers
were involved in corruption and six in robberies, Dlamini said.
He said other charges against the officers included
aiding prisoners to escape and rape. Ten of the officers were dismissed for
misconduct including absence, insubordination and defeating the ends of
justice. Eight dismissals included civilian members, Dlamini said.
“Communities are urged to take every possible
action and steps in reporting corrupt members and those involved in criminal
acts in order to get efficient and professional service,” he said.
“Taking action against bad elements in the service
must be seen as a commitment by management to work towards a better police
service.”
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Vosman Charge Office Witbank
Picture source: http://whatishappeninginsouthafrica.blogspot.com/2011/08/truth-about-why-crime-is-so-high-in.html
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Mitchell’s Plain Charge Office
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South African Police Service Sleeping on the Job!
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88% of South African Police HIV-Positive
Around 88 percent of all the active staff in the
South African Police Services (SAPS) are HIV-positive, according to that
country’s Deputy Police Minister Maggie Sotyu.
Speaking at a seminar which is being
hosted by the country’s parliamentary Police Portfolio Committee,
and which is focused on the high number of police killings in the country, she
said the AIDS-ridden force include both “police officers and non-career
personnel.”
“The 88 percent is made up of active personnel, clerks, public services
act members, and sweepers,” she said.
AIDS is not the only problem plaguing the South African Police
Services. According to a report issued last
year, of the 158,548 operational members, some
40,000 have failed or do not have firearm competency certificates......
Read more......
radiofreesouthafrica.com
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New deputy minister of police, Bongani ‘burn the
flats with the people inside’ Mkongi
Front
National May 28, 2017
Deputy minister of police Bongani Mkongi – Image –
Front National
Oh, dear parents! You will probably remember that I made a noise a few months ago about the ANC trickster who suggested that the block of flats in Cape Town where the “Zuma must fall” banner was erected should be burnt. Someone, please tell him that it is a residential building in which people live and that the building has nothing to do with the banner.
Oh, dear parents! You will probably remember that I made a noise a few months ago about the ANC trickster who suggested that the block of flats in Cape Town where the “Zuma must fall” banner was erected should be burnt. Someone, please tell him that it is a residential building in which people live and that the building has nothing to do with the banner.
Then the highly gifted comrade, named Bongani Mkongi, commented: It
does not matter, the residents should burn with the building!
Monday, January 20, 2020
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Cops
are selling stolen guns to gangsters: deputy minister
Deputy Minister of Police
Bongani Mkongi Picture: Soraya Crowie
Cape Town –
In a chilling admission,
Deputy Minister of Police Bongani Mkongi, said guns that disappeared last week
from the Bellville South and Mitchells Plain stations, were stolen by member of
the SAPS and sold to gangsters.
“Those firearms that you (the
media) have reported on. They did not just disappear. They were stolen by our
own members. There are SAPS officers stealing guns and giving it to the gangs.
It is an inside job. We know this is happening. How do you explain police
officers going to parties of ganglords? Of course you are going to lose your
firearms, because the guns are being stolen,” Mkongi told a media briefing in
Parliament.
He said gang violence on the Cape
Flats had spiralled out of control and that internal corruption within the
police has aided the problem.
He announced a new gang strategy
which includes the re-introduction of specialised gang units.
Mkongi requested a report from the
station commanders of Bellville South and Mitchells Plain and is planning a
visit to the two stations “in due course”.
He said 18 firearms, mostly assault
rifles, were stolen from the arms storeroom at Bellville South and another 15
assault rifle at Mitchells Plain police stations.
Mgonki said Bellville South and
Mitchells Plain and other areas on the Cape Flats had been turned into
ganglands where innocent residents had little control over their safety.
Cape Argus
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/cops-are-selling-stolen-guns-to-gangsters-deputy-minister-11131650?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
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Police negligence arms criminals with 7‚829
guns‚ says AfriForum
07 September 2017 – 14:32
Police
Minister Fikile Mbalula
Supplied
Supplied
Data released by the police
reveal that negligence has resulted in police losing about 7‚829 firearms
between 2009 and 2014‚ with some of these weapons used in violent and serious
crimes.
Police minister Fikile
Mbalula released this information to Afrikaner interest group AfriForum as
ordered by the Pretoria high court.
In May the court ordered the
minister to hand over to AfriForum‚ within 60 days‚ statistics on firearms lost
by‚ or stolen from the police since 2009.
Ian Cameron‚ AfriForum head
of community safety‚ on Thursday told journalists in Pretoria that although
they had not received all the information they requested‚ they were disturbed
by the figures.
With a whopping 835 guns
stolen‚ KwaZulu-Natal tops the list of stolen guns‚ followed by Gauteng with
741. Other provinces with a high number of guns stolen from the police are the
Eastern Cape at 635 and Mpumalanga at 289.
A total of 396 guns were stolen at police
headquarters alone.
KwaZulu-Natal also tops the
list of guns reported missing from the police at 1‚073‚ followed by Mpumalanga
at 592 and Eastern Cape at 360 missing guns.
Eastern Cape leads the pack
for most unaccounted for guns at 732‚ followed by Gauteng at 148 – with 154
guns unaccounted for at police headquarters.
“These figures do not include
firearms that the SA Police Service should have kept in safekeeping‚ handed in
in terms of gun amnesty for destruction and those seized as evidence‚ but only
reflect those in the police’s asset register‚” said Cameron.
AfriForum also requested
these figures‚ but they were not provided‚” he said.
He said their quest for this
information was triggered by the 2014 police raid on the house of a Ukrainian
couple in Norwood‚ Johannesburg‚ in which 112 assault rifles‚ handguns‚
commercial explosives and detonators were seized. The weapons included some
that had been reported as destroyed by the police.
Cameron said out of over 300
firearms seized during the raid‚ more than half were state registered firearms.
It’s a case of too little, too late in KZN’s killing fields
He said these were firearms handed in during the
amnesty period‚ saying they wanted to establish how the weapons ended up with
the couple.
“Government did say‚ they did
not even know that some of these weapons had been stolen or lost‚” Cameron
said.
He said the information could
answer the question as to where cash-in-transit gangs get the supply of
firepower they seem to have.
“Mbalula wrote to us stating
that data of missing firearms from the central firearm register could not be
released to us as some of those firearms have been used in the commission of
violent and serious crimes‚” he said.
AfriForum is going to request
police watchdog Independent Police Investigative Directorate to probe police’s
negligence in handling firearms‚ which the organisation’s risk and support
manager‚ Hein Gonzales‚ said was a big cause if violent crime in the country.
The organisation said it
would be interested to learn the circumstances under which these guns went
missing or were stolen‚ saying in Germiston alone more than 150 missing
firearms were investigated in one docket.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2017-09-07-police-negligence-arms-criminals-with-7829-guns-says-afriforum/
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Mbalula
issues call-up for more than 600 former ‘freedom fighters’
Fikile Mbalula – Image – Die Vryburger
The minister of police has called up 600 members of the so-called non-statutory powers (NSM) after a meeting on Friday.
The purpose of the meeting
was to discuss promotions and possible fears that Mbalula wants to “buy” such
loyalty for the December ANC election as well as the 2019 election.
The call also includes
members of the Hawks and regional and provincial commissioners.
NSM members are police
officers of former terrorist movements, which are now called “liberation movements”
and which are integrated into the SAPS.
On inquiry, Mbalula’s
spokesperson said that the meeting was part of the ongoing process of
integrating former Umkhonto we Siswe and Azanian Liberation members into the
SAPS.
The promotion of “terrorists”
was already approved by the Cabinet and Parliament in January and described as
“payback for pals.”
Many of these people serve
in the infamous Blue Light Brigade and do not have the necessary training or
skills to perform real police services.
This move is seen as
forming a group around Zuma and its followers.
Read the original article in
Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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