Ex-police liaison man on theft rap
March 19 2014 at 03:22pm
By Daneel Knoetze
By Daneel Knoetze
CAPE ARGUS
Former metro police
spokesman Nowellen Petersen has been arrested and charged with stealing a sound
system from the City of Cape Town.
Cape Town - Former metro police
spokesman Nowellen Petersen has been arrested and charged with stealing a sound
system from the City of Cape Town.
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk
said Petersen had been arrested on Friday.
He signed had out the sound equipment,
worth R33 000, before he resigned from his job in January. He had not returned
it and metro police laid a charge of theft.
A follow-up investigation led police to
a shop in Wynberg, where the sound system had apparently been sold for about R3
000, said JP Smith, Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security.
“In performing his duties related to
metro police’s communications component, Petersen regularly had to sign out
that equipment,” Smith said.
“I am very disappointed in him. He is
an official who was in the public eye and needs to set a better example.
“What is also baffling is the fact that
he was allowed to leave his position without having returned the equipment,” he
said.
Petersen appeared in the Cape Town
Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. It is believed he was released on bail but this
could not be independently confirmed.
Calls to his cellphone on Thursday
morning went unanswered.
Petersen’s former position as metro
police spokesman is still vacant and will take three to six months to fill.
daneel.knoetze@inl.co.za
Cape Argus
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