Cop car snatched at police station
By Rabbie Serumula Jun 10,
2015
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
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