Cop in trouble
over sex with prostitute
July 11 2011 at 07:21am
By Karabo Seanego
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
