Patrolling Durban cops [South African Police Service]
DAILY NEWS / 9 APRIL 2018, 10:28AM / ZAINUL DAWOOD
Durban - Two police officers from the uMbilo police
station were robbed and hijacked off their state vehicle while on patrol on
Monday morning.
Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane, KwaZulu-Natal
police spokesperson, said the officers were patrolling along Bulwer Road and
Helen Joseph Street in the Umbilo area when they were approached by two men who
pretended to be in need of assistance.
Zwane said as the police van stopped the men
pointed guns at them.
"They were pointed at gunpoint and the suspect
disarmed both members of their state firearms. They pulled the members from the
vehicle and drove away. The police vehicle was later found abandoned at
Clearance in Umbilo area," Zwane said.
The police officers managed to walk to the nearby
Stella sports clubs to seek help.
Charges of carjacking and robbery were opened at
Umbilo for investigation and no arrests have been made.
In February, five policemen were killed by an armed
gang at an Eastern Cape police station.The officers were attacked while at the
Ngcobo Police Station between Umtata and Queenstown in the Eastern Cape.
According to police, the armed gang entered the
police station in the early hours and without warning, randomly opened fire on
the members on duty.Three members were killed instantly in the Community
Service Centre. The suspects made off with a police van. Two other members were
killed near the police station.
