21 August 2014
When the ANC
took South Africa over, they quickly reorganised the once-respected South
African Police (SAP) force into the South African Police Service (SAPS).
How apt, you might say, seeing as the majority of police in South Africa these days do indeed service the community - with guns for hire, selling them drugs and doing their part in self-service by joining in armed robberies.
Yes sirree Bob. They sure do provide a service. Maybe not the service they're supposed to provide, but then this is Africa, and South Africa has gone from a first world country just a short 20-years ago, and morphed into another typical failing African state.
Their military is a joke, the infrastructure is crumbling, the economy is going down the toilet, and the country is run by clueless cadres.
So, why shouldn't the police also join in the fun?
Some Western Cape police officers have sided with gangsters and other criminals, provincial police commissioner Arno Lamoer said on Wednesday.
How apt, you might say, seeing as the majority of police in South Africa these days do indeed service the community - with guns for hire, selling them drugs and doing their part in self-service by joining in armed robberies.
Yes sirree Bob. They sure do provide a service. Maybe not the service they're supposed to provide, but then this is Africa, and South Africa has gone from a first world country just a short 20-years ago, and morphed into another typical failing African state.
Their military is a joke, the infrastructure is crumbling, the economy is going down the toilet, and the country is run by clueless cadres.
So, why shouldn't the police also join in the fun?
Some Western Cape police officers have sided with gangsters and other criminals, provincial police commissioner Arno Lamoer said on Wednesday.
He told the Cape Town Press Club that 87 officers were arrested in the last financial year alone for corrupt activities such as selling drugs to gangsters and participating in armed robberies.
Of these, 20 had been dismissed. The rest were still involved in criminal procedures.
"We also know that some of our police officers hire their guns out to people to commit crimes," Lamoer said.
The department had registered all service firearms on a database to combat this trend.
