Reservist Constable Aaron Maphanga accused of complicity in murder
Maphanga (33) of the Lusikisiki SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Oupa Petrus Mabuye (39). [56]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Crimes of the South African Police Service
900 SAP employees were guilty of fraud when they were caught "stealing welfare allowances
In 2010 the Special Investigating Unit discovered that more than 900 SAP employees were guilty of fraud when they were caught "stealing welfare allowances from the state" [61]. None of them were suspended or fired. [61] Only a third received either, a written warning, disciplinary charges, or suspended terminations. [61] All of them accepted plea agreements with the National Prosecutions Authority (or NPA), by which they were required to repay, with interest, what was stolen. [61]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
In 2010 the Special Investigating Unit discovered that more than 900 SAP employees were guilty of fraud when they were caught "stealing welfare allowances from the state" [61]. None of them were suspended or fired. [61] Only a third received either, a written warning, disciplinary charges, or suspended terminations. [61] All of them accepted plea agreements with the National Prosecutions Authority (or NPA), by which they were required to repay, with interest, what was stolen. [61]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Constable Tebogo Rasejane accused of orchestrating hijackings
Constable Tebogo Rasejane from Brixton SAPS in Johannesburg was accused of orchestrating hijackings. [47]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Constable Tebogo Rasejane from Brixton SAPS in Johannesburg was accused of orchestrating hijackings. [47]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Sergeant Ronald Spengane accused of complicity in murder
Spengane of the Masoyi SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Ben Mamase (43) of Lusikisiki. [56|58]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Spengane of the Masoyi SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Ben Mamase (43) of Lusikisiki. [56|58]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Warrant Officer Lulamile Mbethwa accused of complicity in murder
Mbethwa of the Masoyi SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Ben Mamase (43) of Lusikisiki. [56|58]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Mbethwa of the Masoyi SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Ben Mamase (43) of Lusikisiki. [56|58]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
South Africans choose armed response over police: report
Sapa | 20 January, 2012 08:54
Image by: Elvis Ntombela
People are increasingly relying more on armed response services than on the police to keep them safe, according to a report on Friday.
From 2005 to 2010 about 2000 new security companies had entered the market as a result of the drop in confidence in the police by home owners and businesses, the Beeld reported.
Dr Johan Burger, from the Institute of Security Studies, told the daily newspaper there was a need for armed response because of an increase in crimes targeting homes and businesses, such as robberies and hijackings.
However, the ideal situation was that security companies should work hand-in-hand with the police rather than replace them.
According to the SA Institute of Race Relations, 4600 security companies provided armed response service in 2005. This had increased to 7500 (61 percent) by 2010.
The number of security guards employed had increased by 236 percent over the same period, the Beeld reported.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/01/20/south-africans-choose-armed-response-over-police-report
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Police brutality caught on camera
October 15 2009 at 07:23am
By Kanina Foss
Shocker: An alleged illegal immigrant, without tax registration papers for his shop, gets beaten after he tried to escape the Metro Police in Joburg. Photo: Ziphozonke Lushaba, The Star
AFP
An alleged illegal immigrant, without tax registration papers for his shop, was beaten and arrested when he tried to escape Johannesburg Metro Police Department officers during the continuation of a massive crime-prevention operation in the inner city yesterday.
The Pakistani national saw blue lights approaching in Rockey Street in Bellevue, and locked his shop doors, said a police spokesperson.
Shocker: An alleged illegal immigrant, without tax registration papers for his shop, gets beaten after he tried to escape the Metro Police in Joburg. Photo: Ziphozonke Lushaba, The Star
AFP
The officer planted his foot on the second suspect's upper thigh. The man screamed and grabbed hold of the officer's ankle. The officer then kicked him.
Meanwhile, the shop doors had been forced open and the arrested men were led outside. The second man was released when it was found that he was a resident who rented a room in the back of the building.
According to the police, when the officers arrived, the shopowner had run into the tenant's room. Both then were seen trying to leave. All the goods in the shop have been impounded.
Read the entire stort on IOL and other photo by Ziphozonke Lushaba, The Star
http://www.iol.co.za/news/sout and other photo's byh-africa/police-brutality-caught-on-camera-1.461546
October 15 2009 at 07:23am
By Kanina Foss
Shocker: An alleged illegal immigrant, without tax registration papers for his shop, gets beaten after he tried to escape the Metro Police in Joburg. Photo: Ziphozonke Lushaba, The Star
AFP
An alleged illegal immigrant, without tax registration papers for his shop, was beaten and arrested when he tried to escape Johannesburg Metro Police Department officers during the continuation of a massive crime-prevention operation in the inner city yesterday.
The Pakistani national saw blue lights approaching in Rockey Street in Bellevue, and locked his shop doors, said a police spokesperson.
Shocker: An alleged illegal immigrant, without tax registration papers for his shop, gets beaten after he tried to escape the Metro Police in Joburg. Photo: Ziphozonke Lushaba, The Star
AFP
The officer planted his foot on the second suspect's upper thigh. The man screamed and grabbed hold of the officer's ankle. The officer then kicked him.
Meanwhile, the shop doors had been forced open and the arrested men were led outside. The second man was released when it was found that he was a resident who rented a room in the back of the building.
According to the police, when the officers arrived, the shopowner had run into the tenant's room. Both then were seen trying to leave. All the goods in the shop have been impounded.
Read the entire stort on IOL and other photo by Ziphozonke Lushaba, The Star
http://www.iol.co.za/news/sout and other photo's byh-africa/police-brutality-caught-on-camera-1.461546
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Cop who killed Joof v Rensburg still not charged
May 29th, 2011 § 2 Comments
Joof Janse van Rensburg, 55, was fatally shot by neighbour SAPF member Percy Ledwaba during a verbal row on March 13 – however by May 29 2011, the police officer still has not been arrested/charged. The cop’s brother lives right next door to the Viviers family — who witnessed the entire murder. http://bit.ly/mUqHA9 -
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EVANDER. May 29 2011 – An unarmed Afrikaner father and grandfather, Joof Jansen van Rensburg, was fatally shot in the stomach on 13 March by SAPS constable Percy Ledwaba in front of the white man’s son and grandsons. He died of his injuries in hospital on April 14. (source: the Ridge Times News April 22 2011 edition issue 16, Jana Oosthuizen.)
Meanwhile the black police officer who did the shooting – witnessed by the entire Viviers family – remains on duty at Evander police station and has yet to be charged, says his son-in-law Frans Viviers. it was at his home where Jansen van Rensburg was critically shot by a police-detective on 13 March 2011 in Evander.
Look out, he has a weapon…
Mr Viviers said: ” “my little sons had kicked a ball across a neighbour’s wall and peered across it to see if they could retrieve the ball. My black neighbour’s brother ws there and was asked to throw the ball back. He snarled at my two boys and cursed them as he had done before. His car was parked in the street and I walked outside and got engaged in a fiery row with him about the way he spoke to my small sons. I did not know that this man was a police detective. He never identified himself as such. While we stood yelling at each other my father in law stormed in and gave the black man several blows.The man then took a gun from his side, I still yelled at my father-in-law: ‘look out he has a weapon’. I stood right in front of the black man and my father-in-law then moved backwards about 15 metres away from him.
“I shouted: ‘ Stop, Stop we Are Sorry..’ but he targetted his gun across my shoulder and shot my father-in-law in the stomach…
“I shouted “Stop, Stop we are sorry,‘ but the black man simply targeted his handgun across my shoulder and shot my father-in-law in the stomach. Then I struggled to get the man’s gun away from him – and his brother then came running out of his house and I then hid behind my black neighbour while the gunman pointed his gun at me shouting: ‘This is not the old South Africa any more…’
“Captain I shot a guy…’
Viviers: “My wife and two sons saw everything. After someone rushed my father in law to hospital my wife and mother-in-law went to the Evander police station.Only at that moment did we realise that the gunman was a police officer – he never identified him as such at all. My wife heard him speaking over his cellphone and saying: “Captain, I shot a guy…’ When my wife asked him: ‘where is your weapon’; he screamed in front of all the people in the police station: “That’s got fuckalll to do with you you fucking white bitch’. All the other black policemen fell about laughing at this insulting remark. “The Ridge Times” also noted that constable Ledwaba had written in the incident book at the police station on March 13 2011 that he ‘had shot dead Mr Janse van Rensburg’ .
The Viviers family who witnessed the entire murder live right next door to the accused murderer’s brother… who visits him regularly:
The black police-detective has thus far not been arrested for the murder of my father-in-law Joof Jansen van Rensburg, said Mr Viviers. Yet on April 22 2011, Mpumalanga SAPF spokesman capt Leonard Hlathi was quoted as saying that ‘a charge of murder “will be investigated against constable Ledwaba”. However the police officer still remains on his post – and still can also visit his brother, who lives right next door to the Viviers family — who witnessed everything…
Hlathi could not confirm persistent rumours in the Afrikaans community that the service pistol with which Mr Janse van Rensburg was shot, also still remained at the Evander station. Hlathi merely told Jana Oosthuizen that “forensic tests would be done to determine whether a shot was fired.’
Mr Janse van Rensburg and his wife Poppie were visiting with their daughter and her family in Selonica Street in Evander on March 13, and were watching their grandsons kick a rugby ball around, when the boys kicked the ball across the wall quite by accident – and kicked off th entire chain of events which led to the tragic murder of their grandfather.
“The Ridge Times” also noted that constable Ledwaba had written in the incident book at the police station on March 13 2011 that he ‘had shot dead Mr Janse van Rensburg’ . Hlathi said they will now ‘investigate a case of murder and their findings will be forwarded to the provincial police commissioner in Mpumalanga. He will decide what will happen to constable Ledwaba,’ said Hlathi.
Mr Jansen van Rensburg is survived by his widow, three children, five grandchildren and other family members. His funeral service took place from the Dutch Hervormed Church at Eendracht.
links to Face book Pageviews Echo RidgeTimes weekly: editor@echoridge.co.za Tel 017 634 5827/8/9
http://afrikaner-genocide-achives.blogspot.com/2011/05/joof-janse-van-rensburg-shot-dead-by.html
http://nolstuijt.wordpress.com/category/south-africa-police-brutality-cops-cop-criminality-boer-genocide/
May 29th, 2011 § 2 Comments
Joof Janse van Rensburg, 55, was fatally shot by neighbour SAPF member Percy Ledwaba during a verbal row on March 13 – however by May 29 2011, the police officer still has not been arrested/charged. The cop’s brother lives right next door to the Viviers family — who witnessed the entire murder. http://bit.ly/mUqHA9 -
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EVANDER. May 29 2011 – An unarmed Afrikaner father and grandfather, Joof Jansen van Rensburg, was fatally shot in the stomach on 13 March by SAPS constable Percy Ledwaba in front of the white man’s son and grandsons. He died of his injuries in hospital on April 14. (source: the Ridge Times News April 22 2011 edition issue 16, Jana Oosthuizen.)
Meanwhile the black police officer who did the shooting – witnessed by the entire Viviers family – remains on duty at Evander police station and has yet to be charged, says his son-in-law Frans Viviers. it was at his home where Jansen van Rensburg was critically shot by a police-detective on 13 March 2011 in Evander.
Look out, he has a weapon…
Mr Viviers said: ” “my little sons had kicked a ball across a neighbour’s wall and peered across it to see if they could retrieve the ball. My black neighbour’s brother ws there and was asked to throw the ball back. He snarled at my two boys and cursed them as he had done before. His car was parked in the street and I walked outside and got engaged in a fiery row with him about the way he spoke to my small sons. I did not know that this man was a police detective. He never identified himself as such. While we stood yelling at each other my father in law stormed in and gave the black man several blows.The man then took a gun from his side, I still yelled at my father-in-law: ‘look out he has a weapon’. I stood right in front of the black man and my father-in-law then moved backwards about 15 metres away from him.
“I shouted: ‘ Stop, Stop we Are Sorry..’ but he targetted his gun across my shoulder and shot my father-in-law in the stomach…
“I shouted “Stop, Stop we are sorry,‘ but the black man simply targeted his handgun across my shoulder and shot my father-in-law in the stomach. Then I struggled to get the man’s gun away from him – and his brother then came running out of his house and I then hid behind my black neighbour while the gunman pointed his gun at me shouting: ‘This is not the old South Africa any more…’
“Captain I shot a guy…’
Viviers: “My wife and two sons saw everything. After someone rushed my father in law to hospital my wife and mother-in-law went to the Evander police station.Only at that moment did we realise that the gunman was a police officer – he never identified him as such at all. My wife heard him speaking over his cellphone and saying: “Captain, I shot a guy…’ When my wife asked him: ‘where is your weapon’; he screamed in front of all the people in the police station: “That’s got fuckalll to do with you you fucking white bitch’. All the other black policemen fell about laughing at this insulting remark. “The Ridge Times” also noted that constable Ledwaba had written in the incident book at the police station on March 13 2011 that he ‘had shot dead Mr Janse van Rensburg’ .
The Viviers family who witnessed the entire murder live right next door to the accused murderer’s brother… who visits him regularly:
The black police-detective has thus far not been arrested for the murder of my father-in-law Joof Jansen van Rensburg, said Mr Viviers. Yet on April 22 2011, Mpumalanga SAPF spokesman capt Leonard Hlathi was quoted as saying that ‘a charge of murder “will be investigated against constable Ledwaba”. However the police officer still remains on his post – and still can also visit his brother, who lives right next door to the Viviers family — who witnessed everything…
Hlathi could not confirm persistent rumours in the Afrikaans community that the service pistol with which Mr Janse van Rensburg was shot, also still remained at the Evander station. Hlathi merely told Jana Oosthuizen that “forensic tests would be done to determine whether a shot was fired.’
Mr Janse van Rensburg and his wife Poppie were visiting with their daughter and her family in Selonica Street in Evander on March 13, and were watching their grandsons kick a rugby ball around, when the boys kicked the ball across the wall quite by accident – and kicked off th entire chain of events which led to the tragic murder of their grandfather.
“The Ridge Times” also noted that constable Ledwaba had written in the incident book at the police station on March 13 2011 that he ‘had shot dead Mr Janse van Rensburg’ . Hlathi said they will now ‘investigate a case of murder and their findings will be forwarded to the provincial police commissioner in Mpumalanga. He will decide what will happen to constable Ledwaba,’ said Hlathi.
Mr Jansen van Rensburg is survived by his widow, three children, five grandchildren and other family members. His funeral service took place from the Dutch Hervormed Church at Eendracht.
links to Face book Pageviews Echo RidgeTimes weekly: editor@echoridge.co.za Tel 017 634 5827/8/9
http://afrikaner-genocide-achives.blogspot.com/2011/05/joof-janse-van-rensburg-shot-dead-by.html
http://nolstuijt.wordpress.com/category/south-africa-police-brutality-cops-cop-criminality-boer-genocide/
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Police brutality leaves me cold
Friday, January 1, 2010
Saffer Politics
Hours before my departure for Johannesburg on Tuesday evening, I was still labouring under the illusion that my holiday trip to Port Elizabeth had been very pleasant. Unfortunately, police officers doing a drug bust in Parliament Street in Central spoilt my festive mood. They brazenly assaulted three suspected drug peddlers in the full face of the public glare. As if the assault itself was not illegal and immoral enough, they clearly assumed that all bystanders are vulnerable foreigners who lack the capacity to lay charges against the police officers. They had not banked on an accidentally-embedded analyst.
Drug peddling is, of course, an incredibly serious criminal offense. The police are right to eliminate the social scourge. No doubt many of the peddlers are also dangerous and a tough attitude on the part of the police is therefore not inappropriate.
However, what I witnessed was disturbing.
I was sitting at a local restaurant, Zanzibar, when police vehicles screeched past. The news junkie in me insisted on going outside to see what the commotion was about. I walked about 200 meters to where the police had cornered three men. They were lying on the ground when three police officers – including a female police officer – assaulted them with their rifles. Two of the officers emerged from a police vehicle with registration BRT 056 B. One of the suspected criminals quickly sported a gruesome facial swelling as a result of the assault.
Meanwhile, a white civilian woman –driving a top of the range Mercedes Benz with a child in the back – who appeared to have tried to deal with the suspected drug peddlers were casually allowed to drive off after an exchange of numbers with the police. I took down the number plate details of both the presumably would-be customer and the police officers who committed the assault. I spoke to a number of bystanders who had the exact same understanding of the events as me. Some of them were amused by my disgust – for them this is a daily reality.
Before walking away, I overheard one of the three officers – he was casually dressed, very aggressive and comically stout in appearance – laughing in Afrikaans while boasting to a colleague about showing “them” what xenophobia really means. He recalled earlier in the evening nabbing one of “them” at a nearby corner and kicking him with the greatest possible force while he was lying on the ground and claiming to have no drugs on him.
The incident is disturbing for many reasons.
First, a human rights culture requires the rights of both innocent persons and suspected criminals to be fully respected.
Second, the incident was clearly layered with both racism and xenophobia. The rich white woman, who should have been arrested for purposes of further questioning at the very least, was treated like a police buddy. Black bodies were treated like objects to be assaulted. This was no doubt heightened by the fact that the suspected peddlers appeared foreign.
Third, this undermines relations between the community and the police. If you wish the community to come forward with information that can lead to the arrest of criminals, then it is important that the community have confidence in how you conduct your affairs. This incident does not inspire confidence.
Finally, South Africa need to do much more to affirm the rights of foreigners living within our borders. We have seen too many assaults on foreigners by both ordinary South Africans and the police for too long now. This is in violation of international humanitarian law.
The police are right to be tough on crime. But one cannot help but think back to the dark days of Apartheid when you see an all-white, mostly Afrikaans and sadistically aggressive police unit invading a mostly-black zone and arrogantly and openly assaulting the bodies and rights of real human beings. It leaves me cold.
Posted by Saffer Politics at Friday, January 01, 2010
http://safferpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/01/police-brutality-leaves-me-cold.html
Friday, January 1, 2010
Saffer Politics
Hours before my departure for Johannesburg on Tuesday evening, I was still labouring under the illusion that my holiday trip to Port Elizabeth had been very pleasant. Unfortunately, police officers doing a drug bust in Parliament Street in Central spoilt my festive mood. They brazenly assaulted three suspected drug peddlers in the full face of the public glare. As if the assault itself was not illegal and immoral enough, they clearly assumed that all bystanders are vulnerable foreigners who lack the capacity to lay charges against the police officers. They had not banked on an accidentally-embedded analyst.
Drug peddling is, of course, an incredibly serious criminal offense. The police are right to eliminate the social scourge. No doubt many of the peddlers are also dangerous and a tough attitude on the part of the police is therefore not inappropriate.
However, what I witnessed was disturbing.
I was sitting at a local restaurant, Zanzibar, when police vehicles screeched past. The news junkie in me insisted on going outside to see what the commotion was about. I walked about 200 meters to where the police had cornered three men. They were lying on the ground when three police officers – including a female police officer – assaulted them with their rifles. Two of the officers emerged from a police vehicle with registration BRT 056 B. One of the suspected criminals quickly sported a gruesome facial swelling as a result of the assault.
Meanwhile, a white civilian woman –driving a top of the range Mercedes Benz with a child in the back – who appeared to have tried to deal with the suspected drug peddlers were casually allowed to drive off after an exchange of numbers with the police. I took down the number plate details of both the presumably would-be customer and the police officers who committed the assault. I spoke to a number of bystanders who had the exact same understanding of the events as me. Some of them were amused by my disgust – for them this is a daily reality.
Before walking away, I overheard one of the three officers – he was casually dressed, very aggressive and comically stout in appearance – laughing in Afrikaans while boasting to a colleague about showing “them” what xenophobia really means. He recalled earlier in the evening nabbing one of “them” at a nearby corner and kicking him with the greatest possible force while he was lying on the ground and claiming to have no drugs on him.
The incident is disturbing for many reasons.
First, a human rights culture requires the rights of both innocent persons and suspected criminals to be fully respected.
Second, the incident was clearly layered with both racism and xenophobia. The rich white woman, who should have been arrested for purposes of further questioning at the very least, was treated like a police buddy. Black bodies were treated like objects to be assaulted. This was no doubt heightened by the fact that the suspected peddlers appeared foreign.
Third, this undermines relations between the community and the police. If you wish the community to come forward with information that can lead to the arrest of criminals, then it is important that the community have confidence in how you conduct your affairs. This incident does not inspire confidence.
Finally, South Africa need to do much more to affirm the rights of foreigners living within our borders. We have seen too many assaults on foreigners by both ordinary South Africans and the police for too long now. This is in violation of international humanitarian law.
The police are right to be tough on crime. But one cannot help but think back to the dark days of Apartheid when you see an all-white, mostly Afrikaans and sadistically aggressive police unit invading a mostly-black zone and arrogantly and openly assaulting the bodies and rights of real human beings. It leaves me cold.
Posted by Saffer Politics at Friday, January 01, 2010
http://safferpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/01/police-brutality-leaves-me-cold.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
900 SAP employees were guilty of fraud when they were caught "stealing welfare allowances
In 2010 the Special Investigating Unit discovered that more than 900 SAP employees were guilty of fraud when they were caught "stealing welfare allowances from the state" [61]. None of them were suspended or fired. [61] Only a third received either, a written warning, disciplinary charges, or suspended terminations. [61] All of them accepted plea agreements with the National Prosecutions Authority (or NPA), by which they were required to repay, with interest, what was stolen. [61]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
In 2010 the Special Investigating Unit discovered that more than 900 SAP employees were guilty of fraud when they were caught "stealing welfare allowances from the state" [61]. None of them were suspended or fired. [61] Only a third received either, a written warning, disciplinary charges, or suspended terminations. [61] All of them accepted plea agreements with the National Prosecutions Authority (or NPA), by which they were required to repay, with interest, what was stolen. [61]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Reservist Constable Sandile Dube
Dube (23) of the Lusikisiki SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Oupa Petrus Mabuye (39). [56]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Dube (23) of the Lusikisiki SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Oupa Petrus Mabuye (39). [56]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Reservist Constable Sidney Fakude
Fakude (31) of the Lusikisiki SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Oupa Petrus Mabuye (39). [56]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Fakude (31) of the Lusikisiki SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Oupa Petrus Mabuye (39). [56]
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Police officers charged with or even convicted of crimes in the Western Cape are being allowed to stay in their jobs,
in contravention of national police policy.
At least four cases have come to light in the past month in which police officers who have appeared in court or been convicted ofcrimes ranging from theft to rape, are still at work.
More than a dozen others under investigation for a suspect's death are also still at work, as are two others who admitted to fiddling crime statistics.
The cases are:
• A station commissioner who has been convicted on two assault charges, as well as crimen injuria and intimidation;• A police officer charged with raping his 11-year-old half-sister over a period of eight years;
• A police officer charged for selling stolen police equipment;
• Fifteen police officer under investigation for six months for the death of a man in their custody; and
• Two officers who pleaded guilty in a disciplinary hearing to altering case docket details.Provincial police say "each case (in considering suspension) will be dealt with on its own merit". But according to National Police spokesperson Selby Bokaba, national policy is that an officer must be suspended when he or she is charged, or found guilty in court.
Earlier this month former Somerset West station commissioner Sandile Sonjani, who now works in Athlone, was found guilty in court of two assaults, intimidation and crimen injuria relating to attacks on a subordinate in 2007. He was sentenced to five months in jail or a R3 000 fine and plans to appeal.
After the attacks Sonjani was moved to Athlone police station, where he is commissioner.
Police spokesperson Billy Jones confirmed that Sonjani had never been suspended.
He said: "When an officer is found guilty it does not imply that the member is immediately suspended. The suspension is done in terms of (police) disciplinary procedures and not in terms of a criminal conviction."
Factors such as whether the officer had pleaded guilty, how much responsibility the officer had, and his or her rank would be taken into account.
He said the police's "discipline management section will now procedurally look at the matter" and once Sonjani's appeal was concluded, would decide whether he was still fit to be a police officer.
National police spokesperson Selby Bokaba said: "When a (policeman) is charged or convicted in court, irrespective of the crime or that person's rank, that person is immediately suspended. I'm quoting from the national regulations."
Bokaba said there may have been "unique circumstances" in Sonjani's case but he did not know of any. But he said the suspension regulation was "clear" and rank played no role in the decision.
The officer stationed at Harare police station in Khayelitsha, charged with raping his little sister for eight years, was in custody after his arrest on July 29 and appeared in court, but was then released on bail.
He may not be named to protect the identity of his alleged victim, who was initially placed in foster care, but returned to her parents on a Somerset West Magistrate's instruction.
The police officer has been given the green light to go back to work at the Harare police station. He will remain an actively serving officer for at least the duration of his trial, unless a disciplinary hearing orders otherwise.
"When a (police) member is arrested or in... custody... for that period while the member is under arrest or in custody, he or she is under immediate suspension - which means he or she cannot exercise their policing duty and mandated authority," Jones said.
"When the member is released ... then that immediate suspension is lifted. Thereafter the normal disciplinary processes kicks in if the member is still implicated and has to appear in court."
Ocean View constable Hilton Basson was arrested on July 27 for stealing and selling police radios to towing companies. He appeared in the Simon's Town Magistrate's Court and is back at work. Police said depending on the outcome of an internal investigation, he might be suspended at a future date.
Fifteen Organised Crime Unit members, who may not be named because they have not been formally charged, have been under investigation since February for the death of Sidwell Mkwambi, 24. They have not been suspended in spite of a recommendation by the police watchdog body, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD).
It is alleged Mkwambi was beaten at the Bellville South police station where the 15 work, before he was driven in a police van to a mortuary.
Two months ago community safety MEC Lennit Max said there had been "insufficient evidence" to warrant suspensions.
And in a case that didn't make it to court, a disciplinary hearing was last week concluded for two Lansdowne inspectors who pleaded guilty to incorrectly registering case dockets.
http://southafrica-pig.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
in contravention of national police policy.
At least four cases have come to light in the past month in which police officers who have appeared in court or been convicted ofcrimes ranging from theft to rape, are still at work.
More than a dozen others under investigation for a suspect's death are also still at work, as are two others who admitted to fiddling crime statistics.
The cases are:
• A station commissioner who has been convicted on two assault charges, as well as crimen injuria and intimidation;• A police officer charged with raping his 11-year-old half-sister over a period of eight years;
• A police officer charged for selling stolen police equipment;
• Fifteen police officer under investigation for six months for the death of a man in their custody; and
• Two officers who pleaded guilty in a disciplinary hearing to altering case docket details.Provincial police say "each case (in considering suspension) will be dealt with on its own merit". But according to National Police spokesperson Selby Bokaba, national policy is that an officer must be suspended when he or she is charged, or found guilty in court.
Earlier this month former Somerset West station commissioner Sandile Sonjani, who now works in Athlone, was found guilty in court of two assaults, intimidation and crimen injuria relating to attacks on a subordinate in 2007. He was sentenced to five months in jail or a R3 000 fine and plans to appeal.
After the attacks Sonjani was moved to Athlone police station, where he is commissioner.
Police spokesperson Billy Jones confirmed that Sonjani had never been suspended.
He said: "When an officer is found guilty it does not imply that the member is immediately suspended. The suspension is done in terms of (police) disciplinary procedures and not in terms of a criminal conviction."
Factors such as whether the officer had pleaded guilty, how much responsibility the officer had, and his or her rank would be taken into account.
He said the police's "discipline management section will now procedurally look at the matter" and once Sonjani's appeal was concluded, would decide whether he was still fit to be a police officer.
National police spokesperson Selby Bokaba said: "When a (policeman) is charged or convicted in court, irrespective of the crime or that person's rank, that person is immediately suspended. I'm quoting from the national regulations."
Bokaba said there may have been "unique circumstances" in Sonjani's case but he did not know of any. But he said the suspension regulation was "clear" and rank played no role in the decision.
The officer stationed at Harare police station in Khayelitsha, charged with raping his little sister for eight years, was in custody after his arrest on July 29 and appeared in court, but was then released on bail.
He may not be named to protect the identity of his alleged victim, who was initially placed in foster care, but returned to her parents on a Somerset West Magistrate's instruction.
The police officer has been given the green light to go back to work at the Harare police station. He will remain an actively serving officer for at least the duration of his trial, unless a disciplinary hearing orders otherwise.
"When a (police) member is arrested or in... custody... for that period while the member is under arrest or in custody, he or she is under immediate suspension - which means he or she cannot exercise their policing duty and mandated authority," Jones said.
"When the member is released ... then that immediate suspension is lifted. Thereafter the normal disciplinary processes kicks in if the member is still implicated and has to appear in court."
Ocean View constable Hilton Basson was arrested on July 27 for stealing and selling police radios to towing companies. He appeared in the Simon's Town Magistrate's Court and is back at work. Police said depending on the outcome of an internal investigation, he might be suspended at a future date.
Fifteen Organised Crime Unit members, who may not be named because they have not been formally charged, have been under investigation since February for the death of Sidwell Mkwambi, 24. They have not been suspended in spite of a recommendation by the police watchdog body, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD).
It is alleged Mkwambi was beaten at the Bellville South police station where the 15 work, before he was driven in a police van to a mortuary.
Two months ago community safety MEC Lennit Max said there had been "insufficient evidence" to warrant suspensions.
And in a case that didn't make it to court, a disciplinary hearing was last week concluded for two Lansdowne inspectors who pleaded guilty to incorrectly registering case dockets.
http://southafrica-pig.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Captain Hertone Gwadiso
Gwadiso of the Masoyi SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Ben Mamase (43) of Lusikisiki. [56|58]
Gwadiso of the Masoyi SAPS was accused of complicity in the murder of Ben Mamase (43) of Lusikisiki. [56|58]
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Station Commissioner Colonel Koos van Rhyn
In 2010 Van Rhyn were also investigated for his "alleged links to the criminal underworld" [10], when Tebogo Merafhe, President of the National Rental Association of South Africa, fingered him as "a key member of the so-called Hillbrow Mafia" [57], "having a cosy relationship with [Alan] Kukard" [57], "who owns the notorious Hillbrow Inn and Maxime Hotels which are openly run as brothels" [57]. [7|10]
Also in 2010 the "Johannesburg High Court ... awarded Berea businessman Herbet Mandlbaur R150000 for false arrest related to continuous police harassment linked to Hillbrow station's acting commissioner Koos van Rhyn" [10].
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
In 2010 Van Rhyn were also investigated for his "alleged links to the criminal underworld" [10], when Tebogo Merafhe, President of the National Rental Association of South Africa, fingered him as "a key member of the so-called Hillbrow Mafia" [57], "having a cosy relationship with [Alan] Kukard" [57], "who owns the notorious Hillbrow Inn and Maxime Hotels which are openly run as brothels" [57]. [7|10]
Also in 2010 the "Johannesburg High Court ... awarded Berea businessman Herbet Mandlbaur R150000 for false arrest related to continuous police harassment linked to Hillbrow station's acting commissioner Koos van Rhyn" [10].
http://hil001.blogspot.com/2010/10/police-corruption-in-south-africa.html
Crimes of the South African Police Service
20 March 2012 The Star Newspaper
This is the crime operation center that allegedly tells people to "F*ck off", please read yesterdays newspaper on the way the caller was abused! They said they would investigate the complaint but don't hold your breath.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Analysis of the third kind • 15 March 2012, 06:41:26 (South Africa)
Van der Vyver wins civil claim, but would the police ever pay?
Former murder-accused, Fred van der Vyver got the green light from the courts to bring a R46 million claim against the police for malicious prosecution, but he might just be wasting his time. With the police’s track record of damages payment, there’s every chance that he will never see the money. CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports.
It was an emotional end to six years of court battles after Fred van der Vyver, now an actuarial assistant, was accused of murdering his girlfriend and fellow Stellenbosch student at the time, Inge Lotz.
Four years ago, he was acquitted of the murder, and on Monday, Cape High Court Judge Anton Veldhuizen found that there was no evidence to indicate that Van der Vyver had killed her. Veldhuizen ruled that Van der Vyver could continue with his civil claim against the police.
Another process will now have to start next year to determine how much of the R46 million he’s claiming he is entitled to.
But he might have to wait a while, as police ministry spokesman Zweli Mnisi said the police’s lawyers were studying the judgement and are likely to appeal – something which has become something of a reflex reaction for the police in civil cases, and the SA government as a whole.
Even if Van der Vyver holds out for another couple of years, pushes through, fights the appeal and gets an award (which would include his legal costs), the police has a very bad track record of actually paying up.
DA police spokeswoman Dianne Kohler-Barnard said the police’s legal services “have been dysfunctional for years”.
She had been waging a campaign against the former head of legal services, Lindiwe Mtimkulu, who was suspended last year after an R8 million investigation found gross mismanagement of the police litigation services under her watch.
Kohler-Barnard said the problems remained and the police was more likely to fight court cases than actually conceding when they were wrong and pay up.
“Your chances of being paid out by the police are very low,” she said.
Kohler-Barnard said the best way to go about claims against the police is to approach the Independent Complaints Directorate to sue the police on your behalf.
While this is not the usual procedure in a case like Van der Vyver’s, it is technically possible.
The police investigation itself was also a “shambles”, forensics expert David Klatzow told Daily Maverick.
He said police laboratories have been in steady decline, making it almost impossible for police to back up cases with evidence.
Klatzow said there were many cases like Van der Vyver’s coming before the courts now, because of this decline.
“The labs are on the edge of collapse, and now you are starting to see the effect of this in open court.”
Van der Vyver’s was a high profile case, but Klatzow said he was dealing with another case where the accused had been in prison for 12 years while the police was trying to prove a case on fractured evidence.
Klatzow said the problem was also that incompetent people were appointed in the police and labs. “Political interference in the appointment of police staff is a problem.”
He reckons Van der Vyver’s case against the police was good. “Police are planning to appeal an unappealable case. They should just bow out and pay the price for it”. DM
http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-08-16-van-der-vyver-wins-civil-claim-but-will-the-police-ever-pay
Van der Vyver wins civil claim, but would the police ever pay?
Former murder-accused, Fred van der Vyver got the green light from the courts to bring a R46 million claim against the police for malicious prosecution, but he might just be wasting his time. With the police’s track record of damages payment, there’s every chance that he will never see the money. CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports.
It was an emotional end to six years of court battles after Fred van der Vyver, now an actuarial assistant, was accused of murdering his girlfriend and fellow Stellenbosch student at the time, Inge Lotz.
Four years ago, he was acquitted of the murder, and on Monday, Cape High Court Judge Anton Veldhuizen found that there was no evidence to indicate that Van der Vyver had killed her. Veldhuizen ruled that Van der Vyver could continue with his civil claim against the police.
Another process will now have to start next year to determine how much of the R46 million he’s claiming he is entitled to.
But he might have to wait a while, as police ministry spokesman Zweli Mnisi said the police’s lawyers were studying the judgement and are likely to appeal – something which has become something of a reflex reaction for the police in civil cases, and the SA government as a whole.
Even if Van der Vyver holds out for another couple of years, pushes through, fights the appeal and gets an award (which would include his legal costs), the police has a very bad track record of actually paying up.
DA police spokeswoman Dianne Kohler-Barnard said the police’s legal services “have been dysfunctional for years”.
She had been waging a campaign against the former head of legal services, Lindiwe Mtimkulu, who was suspended last year after an R8 million investigation found gross mismanagement of the police litigation services under her watch.
Kohler-Barnard said the problems remained and the police was more likely to fight court cases than actually conceding when they were wrong and pay up.
“Your chances of being paid out by the police are very low,” she said.
Kohler-Barnard said the best way to go about claims against the police is to approach the Independent Complaints Directorate to sue the police on your behalf.
While this is not the usual procedure in a case like Van der Vyver’s, it is technically possible.
The police investigation itself was also a “shambles”, forensics expert David Klatzow told Daily Maverick.
He said police laboratories have been in steady decline, making it almost impossible for police to back up cases with evidence.
Klatzow said there were many cases like Van der Vyver’s coming before the courts now, because of this decline.
“The labs are on the edge of collapse, and now you are starting to see the effect of this in open court.”
Van der Vyver’s was a high profile case, but Klatzow said he was dealing with another case where the accused had been in prison for 12 years while the police was trying to prove a case on fractured evidence.
Klatzow said the problem was also that incompetent people were appointed in the police and labs. “Political interference in the appointment of police staff is a problem.”
He reckons Van der Vyver’s case against the police was good. “Police are planning to appeal an unappealable case. They should just bow out and pay the price for it”. DM
http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-08-16-van-der-vyver-wins-civil-claim-but-will-the-police-ever-pay
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Police trying to cover incompetence.
10 February 2012
SINO MAJANGAZA
RELIVING THE TRAUMA: The mother of the three-year-old girl who was allegedly raped in Leaches Bay on Saturday. In the picture, she is speaking with her neighbour who accompanied her daughter to Fleet Street Police Station Picture: SINO MAJANGAZA
RESIDENTS of Leaches Bay have lambasted the manner in which police handled the alleged rape of a three-year-old girl at the weekend and said officers were trying to cover up their incompetence.
Eyewitnesses who approached the Daily Dispatch yesterday to give their version of events of Saturday night – where an alleged rapist was stoned to death by community members – rejected claims by police the suspect had fled by the time officers arrived on the scene.
They accused police of not carrying out their duties properly by:
• Not arresting the suspect;
• Only taking the three-year-old rape victim to hospital hours after the attack; and
• Inflaming tensions in the community by the manner in which they conducted their subsequent investigations.
An eyewitness who asked to remain anonymous said that after police were called to the scene, two officers arrived driving a white car .
“They did not even ask about the whereabouts of the suspect,” she said. “He was in his shack and now (police are) saying he was not found.
“I personally asked them why they were leaving the suspect behind and they did not respond.”
She said they thought the officers were going to call for a police van to collect the suspect.
“But it is obvious that they did not do that,” she said.
“But still they did not come. What did they expect? They are the ones who should be charged for murder,” said the woman.
Another community member who also witnessed the incident said the police had been incompetent.
“We would not be in this mess if those incompetent police officers did their job properly,” she said, adding that the statement made by police that the suspect had fled was completely inaccurate.
“There was no manhunt that was launched by the community to look for him; he was always in his shack.”
The mother of the young girl who was raped claimed she was receiving threats from relatives of three men arrested in connection with the mob justice attack on the suspected rapist.
She alleged that police had picked up her 14-year-old son for questioning and despite the fact he had given a statement denying seeing who had carried out the attack, police had arrested three men.
“I feel victimised,” she said. “My three-year-old daughter was raped, my 14-year-old is accused of pointing out the killers of the rapist and now I am receiving threats .
“They questioned my son in my absence and later they arrested people.
“Now the community has the impression that it is my son who told the police that the arrested people are the ones responsible for the killing of the suspect.”
Meanwhile, the neighbour of the three-year-old rape victim said she had accompanied the young girl, and the girl’s older sister, with police officers to Fleet Street Police Station.
She alleges they were made to wait at the station for more than two hours unattended.
“We stayed there not receiving any help"
10 February 2012
SINO MAJANGAZA
RELIVING THE TRAUMA: The mother of the three-year-old girl who was allegedly raped in Leaches Bay on Saturday. In the picture, she is speaking with her neighbour who accompanied her daughter to Fleet Street Police Station Picture: SINO MAJANGAZA
RESIDENTS of Leaches Bay have lambasted the manner in which police handled the alleged rape of a three-year-old girl at the weekend and said officers were trying to cover up their incompetence.
Eyewitnesses who approached the Daily Dispatch yesterday to give their version of events of Saturday night – where an alleged rapist was stoned to death by community members – rejected claims by police the suspect had fled by the time officers arrived on the scene.
They accused police of not carrying out their duties properly by:
• Not arresting the suspect;
• Only taking the three-year-old rape victim to hospital hours after the attack; and
• Inflaming tensions in the community by the manner in which they conducted their subsequent investigations.
An eyewitness who asked to remain anonymous said that after police were called to the scene, two officers arrived driving a white car .
“They did not even ask about the whereabouts of the suspect,” she said. “He was in his shack and now (police are) saying he was not found.
“I personally asked them why they were leaving the suspect behind and they did not respond.”
She said they thought the officers were going to call for a police van to collect the suspect.
“But it is obvious that they did not do that,” she said.
“But still they did not come. What did they expect? They are the ones who should be charged for murder,” said the woman.
Another community member who also witnessed the incident said the police had been incompetent.
“We would not be in this mess if those incompetent police officers did their job properly,” she said, adding that the statement made by police that the suspect had fled was completely inaccurate.
“There was no manhunt that was launched by the community to look for him; he was always in his shack.”
The mother of the young girl who was raped claimed she was receiving threats from relatives of three men arrested in connection with the mob justice attack on the suspected rapist.
She alleged that police had picked up her 14-year-old son for questioning and despite the fact he had given a statement denying seeing who had carried out the attack, police had arrested three men.
“I feel victimised,” she said. “My three-year-old daughter was raped, my 14-year-old is accused of pointing out the killers of the rapist and now I am receiving threats .
“They questioned my son in my absence and later they arrested people.
“Now the community has the impression that it is my son who told the police that the arrested people are the ones responsible for the killing of the suspect.”
Meanwhile, the neighbour of the three-year-old rape victim said she had accompanied the young girl, and the girl’s older sister, with police officers to Fleet Street Police Station.
She alleges they were made to wait at the station for more than two hours unattended.
“We stayed there not receiving any help"
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