A woman is terrified to live in her own house in a Kempton Park suburb.
She alleges that the local police station turns a deaf ear to her pleas for
help to apprehend thieves who repeatedly break into and ransack her house.
Three times she phoned the cops to report suspicious-looking men sitting in a car outside her house. Each time they promised to send a vehicle, but none came. On one occasion the suspects left their car and attempted to break into her house, but ran off when an alert neighbour came to her assistance.
Finally the woman went to the police station to complain. The cop on duty told her that next time the suspects came she should arrest them herself and bring them to the station. That same day thieves broke into her neighbour’s house.
The woman now complains that the cops stopped her as she was driving alone in her car and ticketed her for driving without a PDP licence. “I was alone with my valid drivers licence,” she explained. “One needs a PDP licence to transport people at a fee, not for driving as a usual driver.”
A police captain at the station claims they did respond to her first call, but that on their way there they came across a vehicle hijacked earlier that month. He also accuses the woman of not wanting to cooperate with them in their investigations. He alleges she did not come forward to identify the cop who asked her to arrest the suspects herself, and for that reason they can do nothing more. The woman also refuses to bring the fine docket to the station. To cap it all, the woman did not attend a police forum despite his urging her to do so.
So far, there is a lot of she said, he said, to this story. Let’s hope someone gets to the bottom of it soon.
Three times she phoned the cops to report suspicious-looking men sitting in a car outside her house. Each time they promised to send a vehicle, but none came. On one occasion the suspects left their car and attempted to break into her house, but ran off when an alert neighbour came to her assistance.
Finally the woman went to the police station to complain. The cop on duty told her that next time the suspects came she should arrest them herself and bring them to the station. That same day thieves broke into her neighbour’s house.
The woman now complains that the cops stopped her as she was driving alone in her car and ticketed her for driving without a PDP licence. “I was alone with my valid drivers licence,” she explained. “One needs a PDP licence to transport people at a fee, not for driving as a usual driver.”
A police captain at the station claims they did respond to her first call, but that on their way there they came across a vehicle hijacked earlier that month. He also accuses the woman of not wanting to cooperate with them in their investigations. He alleges she did not come forward to identify the cop who asked her to arrest the suspects herself, and for that reason they can do nothing more. The woman also refuses to bring the fine docket to the station. To cap it all, the woman did not attend a police forum despite his urging her to do so.
So far, there is a lot of she said, he said, to this story. Let’s hope someone gets to the bottom of it soon.
