14 February 2012 § Leave a Comment
Chaos reigns in the SA Police Service – which reportedly has trouble identifying ‘bogus-police’ criminals from real police officers:
Feb 14 2012 — Bedfordview journalist Dylan Slater noted this month that the SA Police Service has trouble identifying ‘bogus’ criminals from real police officers; that spokespeople were publishing contradictory statements. Slater thus is unclear on whether two men arrested as ‘bogus cops’ earlier this month, were actually ‘real SAPS members’ or not… because the police also do not seem able to tell…
Unsurprisingly, bogus police syndicates are doing a roaring trade, two bedfordview journalists including Slater, found in their in-depth investigation.
Slater wrote on 3 Feb 2012 that initially, he was told by SAPS constable Sharon Mahamba of the Sebenza police station that:
- ‘SAPS Student Constable Vill Seshweni and Warrant Officer Joseph Moabela were patrolling in Modderfontein when they noticed a person handcuffed in the back of a vehicle and two men standing outside the vehicle. There was a second vehicle on the scene. The two men told the police officers that they were members of the SAPS and were questioning the man. It was established that one man was a police officer from the SAPS Johannesburg cluster.”
Slater: “This contradicted what Lt Col Ndou told Looklocal this afternoon by Lt.Col Ndou, who said:
“It must be mentioned that none of the arrested suspects are police officers. The other suspect claimed to be a captain in the SAPS, but it was established that he has never been a member of SAPS,” then said warrant-officer Cobus Holloway, also of the Sebenza SAPS, who added:
– “Fingerprints were lifted off both vehicles and a weapon found on the scene of the arrest. This linked both men to four other crimes which have been reported to the SAPS. The one car was reported as hijacked in Dobsonville and the other was also a hijacked vehicle traced back to a case in Pretoria,”– then said Constable Sharon Mahamba from Sebenza SAPS: “Both licence discs on the vehicles were fraudulent…”
