Sunday, March 1, 2015

Crimes of the South African Police Service

Police authority is collapsing
It seems that the Police Minister no longer has his juniors under control, however. Beeld reported a very serious collapse of internal policing-authority recently - when two senior Afrikaner police officers were arrested by junior police-reservists because their seniors had insisted on aa thorough accident-scene investigation…
Police Supt. HeilaJoubert and husband Inspector BraamJoubert were arrested in Krugersdorp and dumped in a police cell by junior police-reservists for ‘interfering in an accident scene’. This serious breach of authority was the result of the senior Afrikaans police officers insisting that their junior reservist-colleagues carry out a proper accicent-scene investigation. Such incidents are symbolic of the increasingly serious breakdown of authority inside the SA Police Services …
An Afrikaner couple – SAPS superintendent HeilaJoubert and husband Inspector BraamJoubert - were thrown in a police cell in Krugersdorp for insisting that their junior police-reservist colleagues carry out a better investigation of an accident scene in which a pedestrian was seriously injured on Tuesday.
The Krugersdorp cops – newlyweds – were telephoned by Mrs Joubert’s sister Chantelle van den Heever, 27, after an accident involving a pedestrian on Paardekraal-Drive.
HeilaJoubert, 36, works at the Kagiso police station at the East Rand. She then asked her husband inspector BraamJoubert, 36, of the Krugersdorp Task Force, to go and help her sister sort out the details around the accident scene.
Inspector Joubert said when he arrived at the accident scene however, he had found only oe police reservist there, a sergeant. He identified himself and offered his assistance. However a row erupted when Joubert insisted that proper measurements and sketches be made of the crime-scene, while the reservist was at that stage, already packing away his paper-work, he told the newspaper. Another reservist then showed up – another sergeant – who then immediately passed legal judgment on the driver, saying: ‘look at the brake-marks, she was speeding..’. Inspector Joubert said he pointed out however that such decisions are made by law-courts, not by police officers.
  • ‘F… off my scene. I’m in charge…’ ‘Bring the shock-machine…’
  • The second sergeant shoved the police inspector and told him: “F*** off from my scene! I’m in charge!” The first reservist tried to intervene. Insp. Joubert then called his wife asking her to send the unit commander ‘because his members don’t know their jobs’. A police vehicle then showed up with two more reservists, accompanied by a permanent-force police inspector. This inspector however wasn’t very happy either, shouting: “ “Bring the ‘shock’-machine’, pommeling Joubert in his ribs and then dumping the Afrikaner police officer into a police van.
His wife superintendent HeilaJoubert showed up at this point and took photographs on her cellphone, showing her husband being arrested. The inspector told her that her husband was ‘being arrested for reckless driving.’ Superintendent Joubertrepliedthat he was ‘ being an idiot, because it hadn’t been her husband who had driven the accident-car, it had been her sister.’
Junior reservists scuffle with senior police-officers and ‘arrest’ Inspector Joubert:
The arresting officer then said he would refuse to open a police docket and also refused to take any witness statements at the scene, Superintendent Joubert said. At this stage, a senior-superintendent showed up and released inspector Joubert from the van and a struggle then ensued in which another junior reservist againdumpedBraamJoubert back into the van again and drove off with him to the Krugersdorp police station, with Heila following in her car.
While enroute to the Krugersdorp police station to visit her husband in the cells, superintendentHeilaJoubert also was waylaid by a junior police reservist and arrested. Both ended up in the Krugersdorp police cells. The couple said they were told they were ‘going to be charged with intervening in a crime scene, crimen injuria and slander.’
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