Cop car snatched at police station
June 10 2015 at 07:44am
By Rabbie Serumula
By Rabbie Serumula
INDEPENDENT
Johannesburg - Brazen car thieves have stolen a marked police vehicle
from Roodepoort police station.
It was discovered stolen three days later in what is believed to be an
inside job.
The vehicle, a white police Toyota Quantum, has not been recovered.
The Quantum was stolen along with a staff member’s private Toyota
Fortuna from the parking lot and the backyard of the police station on the West
Rand.
On Saturday night a police officer discovered his car was missing.
The police realised only on Monday that the Quantum had also been
stolen.
The main gate is usually locked but on that evening it was not, said
police station spokeswoman Warrant Officer Nonhlanhla Khumalo.
Khumalo said police vehicles “are fitted with an automatic vehicle
locater, which showed us that the marked car was taken on Saturday around 9pm”.
She said the police believe both vehicles were stolen on Saturday night
because it was impossible for the Quantum to have been taken after the gate was
locked.
“After the officer noticed his car was stolen, we locked the gate. The
thieves could have known that the police are not working over the weekend, that
the Quantum will not be used and that there were no CCTV cameras.”
Police wanted to use the marked vehicle on Monday, which is when they
realised it was missing.
rabbie.serumula@inl.co.za
The Star
