THE STARA member of the SAPS urinates at an impromptu road block. The location is a favourite among police officers seeking bribes in Durban Deep. Pictures: Chris Collingridge
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
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THE STARA member of the SAPS urinates at an impromptu road block. The location is a favourite among police officers seeking bribes in Durban Deep. Pictures: Chris Collingridge
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6 South African policemen from
Douglasdale police station pulled this girl over on the road, kicked, punched
and mace-sprayed her then threw her in jail on 5 counts - all of which were
overthrown in court later. Thanks Frances MelisaaDelvare for sharing your
story! - seejpeg.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-African-Police-Are-Rapists/208430035905750
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Racism
Officially Legal in the SAPS
The
Constitutional Court, or Con Court as it will now be known as, has ruled that
discrimination is more important than merit regarding the promotion of officers
in the SAPS. You can read my view of this at ‘DA Fails Us Whities Again’. Here is the media release and the full judgement:
Read more…..
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SA Police
murder reaches CNN
If we do nothing this will get worse!
Last September Lee Anne Douglas was killed by police while attempting to drive to police station because she was afraid to pull over for an unmarked police car. This story has now been shown to the world on Ame...rican CNN. Lee Anne was asked by a police woman to pay a R6000.00 bribe which Lee Anne refused to pay. What happened after that can only be described as horrific. The following is a sequence of events...
• Lee Anne bumped into a neighbour's motor scooter and that neighbour filed charges. The charges were dismissed however a police woman demanded a bribe of R6,000 anyway
• Police woman shows up at Lee Anne's home and arrests her without a warrant or reason to be at Mrs Douglas’s home. Female officer allegedly assaults Lee Anne Douglas
• Lee Anne is held by police for three days and released without charge
• Police woman again demands bribe of R6,000 from Lee Anne in which Lee Ann refuses to pay.
• Lee Ann reports officers involved and lays charges off false arrest and bribery against police
• Police woman attempts to rip Lee Ann out of her drivers side window. Lee Ann flees from police woman
• Police in an unmarked police car attempt to stop Lee Ann. The first reason they give for trying to stop her is because she ran a red light, later the reason is changed to erratic driving then yet again it is changed to suspicion of drunk driving
• Police shoot at Lee Ann's car even though they are aware that there is a roadblock ahead only a few kilometres
• Lee Ann's car flips and ejects Lee Ann. Police officers fail to render aid to the dying victim and immediately attempt to come up with a cover story in which they have the car dragged 50 meters from the accident scene. Police further attempt to cover up the crime by omitting the fact that they fired upon the car. “When the vehicle was towed away, the station commander noticed bullet holes in the vehicle and he called the suspects and tried to get clarity – they could not give a reasonable explanation for the shooting,” See More
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Update: Knysna Sergeant arrested
14:03 (GMT+2), Tue, 19 March 2013
KNYSNA NEWS FLASH - The sergeant who was arrested for attempted murder and theft on Saturday evening, appeared in the Knysna Magistrates’ court this morning.
His case was postponed to 4 April 2013 for a bail application.
Benjamin Theunissen - off-duty at the time - allegedly shot a 42-year-old man in the chest with a firearm that was stolen earlier the same evening from the Knysna Police station.
Read more in Thursday's Knysna-Plett Herald, and online.
14:03 (GMT+2), Tue, 19 March 2013
KNYSNA NEWS FLASH - The sergeant who was arrested for attempted murder and theft on Saturday evening, appeared in the Knysna Magistrates’ court this morning.
His case was postponed to 4 April 2013 for a bail application.
Benjamin Theunissen - off-duty at the time - allegedly shot a 42-year-old man in the chest with a firearm that was stolen earlier the same evening from the Knysna Police station.
Read more in Thursday's Knysna-Plett Herald, and online.
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colonelMzimkulu Hardy , a fomer
station commander, who has also been the topic of much controversial
speculation and allegations, resigned from the police on February 22. A
familiar phrase from Colonel TembinkosiKinana, SAPS commander of Media
Communications: "Regarding the allegations made against him, the SAPS
would not like to give comment on internal investigations that are taking place
against a member."
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Cops
believed to be behind uMhlanga man’s assault
uMhlanga Ridge resident was hijacked, robbed and
assaulted by five alleged Metro Police officers in Seaview.
25 July 2014 10:01
42-YEAR-OLD uMhlanga businessman had to endure a
two and a half hour long ordeal on Tuesday evening when he was assaulted,
robbed and hijacked after he was flagged down by a man wearing a high
visibility Metro Police jacket in uMhlathuzana Road, Seaview.
It is believed the businessman had been driving
from his office when a policeman in civilian clothing, but wearing a metro
police reflector jacket and a metro police cap, flagged him down.
When the businessman stopped, the officer asked for
his licence, which he gave to the officer. The officer then told the man his
licence disk had expired and when the businessman wanted to check it, the
policeman shoved him into the car. Three other people then climbed in and drove
off. It is believed one man stayed with the Metro Police vehicle.
After stealing his wallet, ring, watch and other
valuables, the brazen robbers demanded his bank card PIN numbers and took him
to an ATM.
After withdrawing the cash, the robbers then tied
his legs and hands and drove to his house. It has been reported that they knew
where he lived, but when they arrived at his house in uMhlanga Ridge, they
turned around when they saw cars in his driveway.
Thinking on his feet, the businessman told the
robbers they could go to his office, where they lured the security officer from
the office, tied his hands and feet and pushed him into the vehicle.
Police said the robbers then took the businessman
to his office, where he led them to the safe. They made off with R170 000 and
left the businessman tied up under a table. Police said he was only freed once
ADT Security arrived.
“It is alleged that he was hijacked of his vehicle
and robbed of cash and a bank card. Police are investigating a case of car
hijacking and armed robbery. A 28-year-old suspect was arrested on Wednesday,
23 July. He will appear in the Durban Magistrates’ Court soon. The vehicle was
later recovered in Cato Manor,” the KZN SAPS office said in a statement.
eThekwini Municipality’s head of communications, ToziMthethwa,
said the municipality was aware of the matter involving five Metro Police
officers who were involved in an alleged hijacking.
“One officer has been arrested, while another one
was taken in for questioning by SAPS. The city treats such incidences as a
criminal offence. If the officers are found to be guilty, necessary
disciplinary action will be taken,” Mthethwa said.
The municipality went on to say it understands that
there are lawless officers in the Metro Police ranks, and urged the public to
report all incidents of an irregular or illegal nature.
“A joint effort where the public report and give
evidence in disciplinary inquiries will eradicate this unacceptable scourge.
The investigation is on-going.”
http://northglennews.co.za/49520/alleged-metro-cops-hijack-rob-assault-local-businessman/
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Hijacked,
kidnapped, robbed by police – resident
“I have been in South Africa since 1994. I have
never seen police officers behave this way. You read about these things in the
paper and never imagine it could happen to you.”
SechabaMachabe | 7 November 2013
These are the words of a 40-year-old Kensington
resident, who did not want his name published, after his traumatic ordeal on
Langermann Drive on November 1.
The businessman and father of four was allegedly
stopped by members of the Johannesburg Flying Squad while driving home from
work.
“When I was stopped I thought it was just a routine
check, or maybe I had transgressed a traffic law,” said the resident. He said
the police officers, in a marked police vehicle, instructed him to stop by
sounding the vehicle’s siren. The man stopped his vehicle and the officers, a
man and a woman, approached his car.
“The male officers asked to see my licence. I
handed it to him. He then told me I was wanted in connection with a robbery in
Sandton,” said the resident.
The man was handcuffed, put into the police vehicle
and told he was being taken to the Sandton SAPS. “As I was being handcuffed, I
noticed a man who looked familiar jump out of the police vehicle. He then
walked away,” said the resident.
The female officer climbed into the resident’s
vehicle and followed them. She dropped the vehicle off in Parktown and then
returned to the police vehicle.
“When we arrived at the station I was not taken
inside. I was left in the car in the parking lot behind the station. The male
officer went inside the station. He came back and said his superior had
instructed him to search my house,” said the resident. The officers apparently
drove to the man’s house.
“When we arrived, my wife and children were still
awake. The police officers searched the house. They took my son’s tablet device
and R15 000. They said the money and tablet were stolen,” said the resident.
The police officers went upstairs where they found
some of the goods the man sells. “They put the linen I sell into a bag with the
other things they took,” said the resident.
The man was then put back into the police vehicle.
“As they drove off, I noticed they were driving past the Jeppe SAPS and
Yeoville. They headed towards town,” said the resident. He claims he was denied
his right to make a phone call to his wife or lawyer. After driving around with
him for a while, they decided to ‘negotiate’ with him.
“They said if I left my goods with them, they would
guarantee it gets to their superior and they would share the money among
themselves and let me go,” said the resident.
He was driven to his car, handed his car keys and
driver’s licence and told to go.
“I then called a friend and went to the Cleveland
SAPS to open a case. This was at 4am. The ordeal started at around 8pm,” said
the resident.
“I thought they were going to kill me. I pleaded
with them, crying and asking them to spare my life,” said the resident.
Throughout the ordeal, he kept hoping the officers would realise it was a case
of mistaken identity.
“I have not been to Sandton in the last two years.
I even asked them to check the tracking device in my vehicle to prove my
innocence. They were not interested,” said the resident.
He said the incident has left him traumatised and
he now fears for his life as the people who did this know where he lives. He
said he could easily identify the police officers if he saw them. When he
arrived home, his son apparently asked him if he was a criminal and what he had
done wrong.
“We live in dangerous times. This is no place to
raise your children. Who do we trust if not the police?” asked the resident. He
said he would take this matter as far as he could to see justice served.
Constable Mpho Mashakane, of the Cleveland SAPS,
said the man opened a case and it is being investigated. She said police
suspect the people who arrested and robbed the resident are not police
officers.
“We have gathered enough information to suggest it
was not real police officers who conducted these crimes. There have been
reports of similar incidents around Kensington and Cyrildene where the same
modus operandi was used,” she said.
Spokesperson for the Gauteng SAPS, Colonel Lungelo
Dlamini, said it was difficult to differentiate between real officers and
impersonators – especially at night.
“A VW Golf 6, resembling a Flying Squad vehicle and
used by bogus police officers, was found about two months ago but the suspects
managed to escape. The police have a team of investigators tasked with tracking
down the impersonators,” said Col Dlamini.
He said in some instances, police members are also
being arrested for committing crimes while on duty.
“It is suspected that corrupt members of the
service help criminals get police uniforms. There are bogus police officers who
have been arrested in the past and are in custody,” said Col Dlamini. He warned
members of the public to be cautious when they suspect the people who stop them
on the road are not real police officers.
“Residents are advised to drive to a public place,
or they can contact the 10111 centre to verify the details of the people posing
as police officers,” said Col Dlamini.
He said members of the public must also try to take
as many details of the impersonators as possible using their cellular phones,
in order for the police to have a way of tracking the imposters down.
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Man’s hijacking terror ride
with alleged Metro cop
Man allegedly threatened and assaulted by Metro
cop.
YoshiniPerumal
| 29 July 2014 11:42
An Umhlanga businessman was allegedly hijacked and taken on a ride of
terror by five men recently, one of whom was wearing a reflector jacket and a
Metro Police cap. MadhavanGovender, 42, was travelling on Umhlatuzana Road in
Seaview, when the incident occurred.
Since then, a Metro police officer is believed to have been arrested. It
is alleged that a marked Metro police vehicle, a quantum that was parked at the
scene with three men dressed in ‘muftis’ surrounding it, pulled Govender over.
He was questioned about his driver’s license which he handed to the alleged
metro policeman. Govender was told to step out of his vehicle by the alleged
Metro police officer who told him his license had expired. The officer then
assaulted Govender and got into his vehicle with the other three men. The
‘officer’ pointed a firearm at him and tied his hands.
The three men then searched Govender and asked where he resided. Fearing
the safety of his family, Govender lied about his residence. The men seemed to
have significant information about Govender, interrupting him and telling him
not to lie as he lives in Umhlanga and that he was a businessman. He was
constantly questioned about his bank pin and was threatened that if it was
incorrect, they would stab him. They drove to Chesterville, where Govender’s
bank card was used to withdraw R1, 000. The suspects continued on their terror
ride with Govender, taking him to Umhlanga. He then noticed that they were
carrying a black device with antennas. They informed the terrified man that
they were going to his house. As they were travelling, he realised they were
heading to his house and at no stage did he give them any directions.
Nearing his abode, the men then informed him that there were too many
people in his house. The armed men also said they were going to rape his
family. He was continuously questioned about the security, panic alarm button
and guards at his house. When he informed them that there’s no safe at his
residence but one at his place of business, they proceeded to the premises. The
men tied up the security guard and placed him in Govender’s vehicle. The
suspects took the keys from the receptionist’s drawer and the pin number of the
safe and removed the cash.
Govender was then instructed to lie flat on the floor while the men fled
the scene. He ran outside screaming for the security official. ADT members were
already at the scene and the cut the cable ties. The police were contacted and
the description of the vehicle was circulated via radio control. Through tracker,
the police tracked the vehicle in Cato Manor, where the vehicle was recovered.
A man was arrested by the K9 Unit. An amount of R106, 000 was taken from
Govender’s safe. W/O Derek Freddy Vijiam, communications officer at
BellairSAPS, confirmed the incident. “A case of hijacking and theft had been
opened and police are investigating the case,” he said.
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AA couple
of JHB's finest spotted outside their Headquarters in Craighall this morning!
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"@bkearsey: @PigSpotter Finish this sentence.......As Happy
as a ........... pic.twitter.com/CN2KR2PG99" ••Pig in mud....
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Hey @SAPoliceService ...somehow this doesn't look legal to me, driving with side door open. TT25
BSP404GP cc @JPSAorgpic.twitter.com/O1bsr9wWuo
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"@u15yale: @pigspotter police
illegally parked while he gets chicken from mochachos!!! pic.twitter.com/qzjZq1xxIF"••#Priorities
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Bacon kip
M2 West near Main Reef rdofframp. #Incompetent#HardAtWorkpic.twitter.com/HxYQ4yyQ1w pic via @OF_THE_SOUTH
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"@Bongzy: Metro using their
lights to join the line of taxi's using the yellow lane. pic.twitter.com/eLyIDIybMn" #ThereAreTheCops
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His head was shoved between his legs, a handgun was jabbed into his ribs
and another stuck against his temple – Ryan Pickford was convinced he was going
to die.
The most recent victim of a blue-light gang, Pickford was held at
gunpoint on Friday night for two hours by men claiming to be police officers –
in full police uniform.
Pickford had just visited his wife and three-week-old son, who is in
high care at the Morningside clinic, on Friday evening when the terrifying
experience began that would see him lose his Porsche, his dignity and his trust
in the police.
Driving past Leeuwkop Prison on Main Road in Bryanston just before 8pm,
Pickford noticed a white Golf GTI following him. The vehicle’s blue lights
began flashing, signalling him to pull over.
Two men dressed in police uniforms, wearing bullet-proof vests and
wielding R5 rifles insisted on searching his car. During what the men called a
“routine search”, another man wearing a police bib approached Pickford’s car
from the side of the road.
Pickford, 35, then called his sister to tell her that the police were
threatening to arrest him if he did not accompany them to the nearest roadblock
for a breathalyser test.
When he agreed, but said he would drive his own car, Pickford was told
he was going to be arrested. When he asked why, one of the “officers”
handcuffed him and pushed him into the back seat of the Golf.
He watched helplessly as the man in the police bib climbed into his
Porsche and drove off. Seated between two other men, who were not in police
uniform but wielding handguns, his captors informed him that he was being
hijacked. While the two men in the back seat pushed his head down with
black-gloved hands, the two uniformed hijackers sat in the front. One started
the car and began driving.
Pickford pleaded for his life, saying they could have his car. “I told
them about my two kids and wife, and how I needed to be with them.”
At first, the men were reassuring, telling him he wouldn’t be hurt if he
didn’t “f*** up”, and that their own children needed to survive as well. But
when his sister began calling on his cellphone, the two handguns were pointed
at his head and heart. He was told to tell his sister that he was with the
police and that nothing was wrong.
After 30 minutes of driving, being interrogated about the cars he drove
and his banking details, Pickford began to get anxious. The men were getting
increasingly hostile, telling him he would be shoved into the car’s boot,
dropped off in the centre of Alexandra, or killed, if he did not co-operate.
“I felt a strange calmness, and I just felt like this was going to be
the end,” he said.
He asked why police officers would do this. Pickford remembers saying
how he said they were meant to “serve and protect”, a statement that offended
his hijackers.
“Who do you think we are? Your servants?” the driver asked.
At around 10pm, the men pulled over in the veld in Centurion, took his
watch and cellphone, and told him to run deep into the veld and lie down.
Pickford said he thought this would be the moment he would be killed, having
seen his hijackers’ faces. But after lying own for several minutes, the men
sped off.
Exhausted and trembling, Pickford made his way to a nearby warehouse,
where he found security guards, who did their best to help him. It was after
midnight by the time he had filed his case with the Midrand SAPS.
A traumatised Pickford is convinced it was police officers who committed
the crime – not impersonators. Pickford said he recognised the face of one as a
policeman at another roadblock.
“I swore to myself I wouldn’t just lie down and take this… If I can help
to save another life (by reporting the case to police), then I will keep
pushing this.
“You’re meant to trust them, like doctors or teachers. How will I ever
stop at a roadblock again?”
Tracker investigators think a syndicate is at work in the northern
suburbs targeting expensive cars. Speaking on condition of anonymity, an
investigator said there had been eight high-end vehicle hijackings in the past
three weeks.
Police spokesman KatlegoMogale was not available for comment.
l If you have been the victim of a blue-light gang – police
impersonators or otherwise – please contact The Star.
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