Crimes of the South African Police Service

BLACK HATE CRIME – So Much for the Police Doing their Job

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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Civilians Warn Not to Open Doors to the South African Police Service

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Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:

After a year in prison Parktown North businessman Dieter Bergs was finally found innocent of murder & set free. Dieter Bergs spent a year being accused of murdering his wife but instead she was murdered by black home-invaders. The police failed to investigate all the available evidence at the murder scene because they had already arrested the white man, who then had to 'prove his innocence...' Dieter Bergs was finally found innocent of murder & set free.

Sept 20 2015 Johannesburg businessman Dieter Bergs, 79, was acquited on charges of killing his wife Genét by the Johannesburg Magistrates Court. The elderly man spent a year in limbo: accused of murder even though his wife was murdered by armed blacks during a home invasion in their Parktown North home.

Now the SAPS faces questions not only around the reliability of its ballistics laboratory but also over whether it deliberately covered up the botched job.The police didn’t respond to questions on this.“The damage and defamation done as a result of that has been horrific,” said Bergs, who turns 80 on Sunday.Geneé Bergs, 70, was shot dead in bed in their Parktown North home in March last year. They had been married for 15 years.Bergs told police he had been in the study and his wife was asleep when he heard two loud bangs.

When he went to investigate, he saw an intruder. He ran after the man and was shot in the hip.There were two guns in the house, both 7.65mm pistols – one that Bergs had borrowed from a friend for protection and was kept next to the bed, and one he’d acquired legally in 1976, but had lost and forgotten about.In late April last year, Geneé’s family found Bergs’s 1976 gun in the house and handed it to the police. SAPS forensic analyst Warrant Officer Thabo Seanego compared it to the two spent cartridges – a 7.65mm spent bullet and a fragment of a fired bullet jacket found at the murder scene.

Seanego’s affidavit said that while the spent bullet and fragment couldn’t be linked to anything, the cartridge cases from the crime scene had been fired by Bergs’s gun.Seanego’s report was the case against Bergs.On September 23, Bergs was arrested and charged with his wife’s murder.

He was released on bail of R10 000, and the next day, a gardener found a gun in the Bergs’s garden. This was the borrowed gun that was kept near the bed.Seanego inspected this second gun and the crime scene evidence, and concluded that neither spent bullet nor fragment was fired from this gun.But he didn’t mention the crucial evidence – the two spent cartridge cases.Bergs’s lawyer, Joburg attorney Ian Small-Smith, a consultant to BDK Attorneys, brought in independent forensic ballistics expert Wollie Wolmarans.After weeks of haggling with police, Wolmarans was able to get Bergs’s legal 1976 gun to compare with the crime scene exhibits, under the watch of police expert Lieutenant-Colonel Lucas Visser, who conducted his own tests.

Both Wolmarans and Visser unequivocally ruled out Bergs’s gun as the murder weapon.

“There was not even the faintest idea that these exhibits could have been fired from the same gun as in their tests and my tests. There were not even likenesses,” said Wolmarans. “It’s the worst I’ve ever had.”Both also concluded that someone had tampered with the second firearm.Wolmarans wasn’t allowed access to the second gun, but saw the spent cartridges from the tests on it, while Visser’s report lists six points of damage – in other words tampering – on that weapon.That damage wasn’t in Seanego’s report.“It wasn’t even mentioned that there was any damage to the gun. That’s why we say there was some cover-up,” said BDK attorney Johan Eksteen.

Wolmarans claimed the tampering was done by someone with more than a lay person’s knowledge.BDK attorney Piet du Plessis said: “This could have had damning consequences for Dieter. Can you imagine if we still had the death penalty?“The worst is that, having made the mistake, they kept quiet about it and it was left to us to discover.”Bergs plans to move to the Cape.

“I lost my first wife after 37 years of marriage to cancer. I then married Geneé five years later. She has died. My daughter died five years ago. It has been a heavy time,” he said.Bergs said he has survived due to his own “wonderful” family and friends, although Geneé’s family believed throughout that he was the killer and still don’t speak to him.

He doesn’t know if the police will ever find Geneé’s killer. “I hope they will.”
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Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:

Young Afrikaner student Fred van der Vijver's hell of police-fabricated 'evidence' after mystery-murder of his girlfriend Inge Lotz: the real killers were never found: For ten months during 2007, the South African State had the wrong accused, but yet in their eagerness to finalize the matter and persecute the young white man in a dramatic court-room media event, crucial evidence was not only tampered with but also fabricated. It came to light during the trial and the subsequent appeals-proceedings that some of the evidence simply ‘disappeared’ after being removed from a judge’s office, making it near impossible to reinvestigate the case and to find the real murderer(s). Only the expert forensic investigations and evidence by top forensic experts were able to prove his innocence to the courts.

Nobody else was ever arrested nor tried for Inge's murder as the case has gone cold. Book; "Fruit of a poisoned tree - A true story of murder and the miscarriage of Justice"

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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:

Young Soweto man wrongly arrested: spends 8 months on horror-prison as forced sex-slaves of gangs

-- The New Age newspaper reported the shocking details of a young man named only as 'Sipho'. He told his story on a South African TV program in the presence of the South African police minister. The young man was arrested for, but never charged with murder.A case of mistaken identity was only discovered after the man had spent eight horrific months in jail.During that time the young man was repeatedly raped as a sex slave and forced into gang life within prison. Following his brief court appearance he was immediately transported to Diepkloof prison, better known as “Sun City”.

Sipho told The New Age, “This is very scary because you hear all these stories about prison and you don’t know what you might go through. So many things have been said about the gangs and the raping in prison.

“When I first arrived at Sun City I was approached by a fellow prisoner in D-Section, who threatened me with a number of horrible things before he told me I would be his ‘wife’. He made me one of his sex slaves within the 28s gang and raped me.”The police’s Gauteng provincial spokesperson, Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini, confirmed with The New Age that: “A case of murder was opened at the Sandton police station after his arrest on June 24, 2011. The only other information we have on the system is that his court case was postponed on December 6, 2011.”

Sipho is considering taking legal action against police, justice and correctional service officials who were involved in his wrongful imprisonment.

http://www.thenewage.co.za/46283-1007-53-Innocent_mans_prison_hell

Crimes of the South African Police Service

Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:

Critically injured farmer André van Greunen (who died of his wounds shortly thereafter), was attacked by 3 armed black males on his Danielsrus, Reitz farm: 

yet police lodged a murder-case against the dead victim: "The SA Police Service recorded a case of murder (against the at that stage badly injured farmer) and a case of suspected murder (against the two suspects who got away). The farmer was shot in the stomach and right elbow when the three black gunmen stormed into his homestead, guns blazing. The farmer shot back, injuring one gunman in the elbow. When the paramedics arrived at the scene, the injured black attacker was declared dead.
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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:

A farmer and daughter were shot and injured by three armed black males who invaded their home - yet the family matriarch gets arrested for shooting back at three armed black males, injuring one

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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:

False arrest: Afrikaner farmwife Tina du Toit was arrested by an overwhelming force of 20 armed cops invading her homestead after she had shot dead armed intruder in self-defence: The case was dropped.

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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:

Afrikaner technician Sean Henry Bates 19, was charged with the self-defence death of a black attacker after a gang attacked and engaged the family in a fierce battle:

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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:

White farmer arrested in Limpopo for public violence after 300 black workers torch their own hostel:
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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:

1 Oct 2015; Afrikaner farmer Fanie van der Westhuizen, 54, was arrested for attempted murder: however several hundred black squatters from an adjacent squatter camp had assaulted an unknown black man who was plundering bricks from van der Westhuizen's farm-dam wall:
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BRITS – 1October 2015 Fanie van der Westhuizen (54) was arrested for 'attempted murder' and 'pointing a firearm' against a suspected thief. He was released on R5000 bail. He was not asked to plead to any charges.

He said in a statement that unknown black males were plundering bricks from his dam wall on Monday at 11am.

The security company employees chased the looters away after the police failed to respond to several calls. Around 15h30 an unknown vehicle drove up to his homestead and dropped a man off at his dam wall.

That man also started plundering the bricks from the wall.

Fanie again called the security company and the police while driving to the dam.

The black man dropped the looted bricks when he saw the Afrikaner farmer and ran in the direction of the Sunway squatter camp.

Fanie said he followed the man in his vehicle. The man ran and fell. Fanie climbed out and said he saw the man make a movement which had him believe the man had a stone or some kind of weapon he was going to assault the farmer with.

Fanie said he got his gun out but never pointed it. At that moment one of Fanie's workers showed up with Fanie's neighbour and a large group of residents from Sunwayu also rushed up and started assaulting the suspected thief.

Fanie said the police showed up and arrested him: and refused to examine Fanie's vehicle nor take any statements from the neighbour who had seen the entire event.

 Mr Van der Westhuizen's 'case' was postponed to next month to allow police to 'continue their investigation (PAGE GRAB)

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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Innocent people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes, fabricate evidence

17:15 Oct 2 2015 Garsfontein SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to convict them: examples:
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1 October 2015 Afrikaner farmer André de Koning faces murder charge after shooting dead black rifleman in defence of his family: wife 's face was bashed in by two black men with rifle-butts: grandson 6, got rifle held to his head with death-threat: Cullinan home: 

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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Alarm at high rate of criminality in South African Police Service

January 26 2015 at 10:57am By Carlo Petersen Cape Town - Four years after a research report exposed alarming criminality within police ranks, fresh evidence from the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) shows that nothing much has changed.

The SAIRR risk analysis unit’s findings, which highlight criminal officers’ involvement in serious and violent crime, is set to be released in a research paper titled Broken Blue Line Two on Wednesday.

The Cape Times obtained an unedited draft copy on Sunday of the new report that details 100 crimes, including rapes and murders allegedly carried out by police officers from April 2011 to November last year.

In the SAIRR’s first report, the same was done for the period between January 2009 and April 2010.

When the 2011 report was released, police said the problem was 'overstated' and that measures were in place to deal with police criminality. And the police has again poured cold water on the new report.

The SAIRR then applied the same methodology for their 2015 report to test whether anything had changed.

The 2011 report’s findings stated: “We found 40 cases related to murders. Rapes accounted for 20 incidents. Ten of the incidents related to armed robberies. Four cases implicate police officers in serious fraud, illegal dealing in weapons and ATM bombings.”

The findings for the 2015 report indicated 36 cases related to murders, 21 related to armed robberies, 27 related to rapes and 16 related to other types of crime ranging from torture to theft and burglaries.

“The fact that we could so easily identify 100 incidents over such a short period of time would suggest that South Africa continues to confront a massive problem,” the draft report states.

As solutions, the SAIRR makes proposals including restoring respect for the chain of command within the police.

“The choice of police commissioner in Riah Phiyega is so utterly inappropriate that it cannot instil confidence in other members.

“That such an important position can fall to such an incompetent person is indicative of the broader command and control problems facing policing in South Africa.”

In response, national police spokesman Solomon Makgale said on Sunday: “Criminality within the SAPS is not an invention of the national commissioner.

“Efforts are being put in place to reduce criminality within the police. Over the 18 months to October 2014, we dismissed 777 people.”

Makgale said Phiyega met SAIRR representatives on Friday.

“After questioning, it is being claimed that 'no case dockets were studied, neither were court reports or judgments taken into consideration as part of this research,” he said.

Institute for Security Studies spokesman Gareth Newham also questioned the upper echelons of the police force.
“It is a challenge that must be addressed. There is no sense in appointing someone who does not know policing.”
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/alarm-at-high-rate-of-cop-criminality-1.1809027

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Polisie gee verdagte vermiste se kar

Deur Vania van der Heever    Vrydag 20 Maart 2015 02:40

Wayne Alberts

Alberts se silwer BMW waarin drie verdagtes ’n dag ná sy verdwyning aangekeer is. Hulle is later vrygelaat omdat hulle langer as 48 uur in polisie-aanhouding was. Foto: Vania van der Heever

Hulle weet hul kind lewe nie meer nie, sê die ouers van ’n Boksburgse man wat vyf weke gelede spoorloos verdwyn het.

Wayne Alberts (36), ’n pa van drie, was op Valentynsdag op pad na sy ouers in Boksburg toe hy spoorloos verdwyn het.

Nog stories wat goed gelees word:

Die volgende dag het die polisie drie mense in sy silwer BMW in Sunnyside, Pretoria, aangekeer. ’n Vuurwapen, dwelms en elektriese kabels is glo in hul besit gevind.

Die drie is weer vrygelaat omdat hulle meer as 48 uur in polisie-aanhouding was voordat hulle in die hof verskyn het, het Christine van Lingen, Alberts se ma, Woensdag gesê.

Hulle het moontlik al die antwoorde gehad, het sy gesê, maar het nou soos mis voor die son verdwyn.

“In my hart weet ek Wayne is dood. Ons was baie na aan mekaar.”

Toe sy vrou sy selfoon op 15 Februarie bel, het ’n vrou geantwoord en gesê Wayne slaap. “Daarna is die foon afgeskakel.”

Volgens Van Lingen het een van die drie ná hul vrylating na die Sunnyside-polisiekantoor teruggekeer om die vermiste man se BMW te kry.

“Die polisie het haar sonder enige vrae die motor gegee – dít nadat sy met ’n onwettige vuurwapen en dwelms daarin gevind is.

“Sy het die motor gebruik om hul prokureur te betaal.”

Die prokureur het die motor ’n dag lank in sy besit gehad en dit op 19 Februarie na die polisie geneem.

“Teen dié tyd was die motor nog nie as gesteel aangemeld nie en die polisie het geen inligting dat dit gesteel is, gehad nie. Die BMW is toe weer aan die prokureur gegee,” het sy gesê.

“Die polisie het ons eers op 1 Maart gekontak en van die motor verwittig. Niemand kan ons sê waar Wayne is nie.”

Leon van Lingen, Alberts se pa, het gesê sy familie kan nie aanbeweeg totdat hulle sy seun gevind het nie.

“Sy drie dogters is tussen vier  en 15 jaar oud. Dit is vir hulle moeilik. Ek lê in die nag wakker. In dié stadium dui alles daarop dat Wayne nie meer met ons is nie.”

Kapt. Colette Weilbach, polisiewoordvoerder van die Sunnyside-polisiekantoor, het gesê die drie verdagtes is van die onwettige besit van vuurwapens aangekla.

“Hulle is op 18 Februarie weer vrygelaat omdat die saak teen hulle teruggetrek is vir verdere ondersoek.”

Crimes of the South African Police Service

SA cop arrested for drug trafficking in China

Feb 11, 2015

A Durban police officer has been arrested in China for alleged drug trafficking, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Tuesday.

SA cop arrested for drug trafficking in China

“We were informed that [Sergeant Busisiwe Zungu] was arrested in Hong Kong,” said Major Thulani Zwane.

He said he had no further information.

Earlier, IOL reported that Zungu, 36, was arrested at Hong Kong international airport two weeks ago.

Zungu had been suspended and police were conducting their own investigation into the alleged trafficking, the website reported. Sapa

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Crimes of the South African Police Service

Randburg police station officers face probe

Thursday 25 October 2012 06:24

Criselda Lewis

Police bosses are to launch a full scale investigation into several officers at the Randburg Police Station in Gauteng. This follows a month long SABC News investigation showing how police frequent a well-known drug hotspot.

 At the same police station, five police officers have been arrested for crimes including those relating to drugs in the past year and a half. The SABC watched for four weeks as drugs were openly sold and police who frequent the area did nothing.

 Gauteng SAPS spokesperson, Neville Malila says: “We’ve been monitoring police vehicles moving in and out, and also capturing drug lords exchanging money and drugs, there is police visibility but they do nothing? We will look at the movement reports, look and drivers and crew on those days for the specific vehicles.”

 Malila says five officers from the Randburg police station have already been arrested, some for drug related activity.

 The Independent Police Investigative Directorate says it takes allegations like these seriously. Since last year the IPID has investigated 2 320 criminal offences by police, including corruption.

 http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/30997f004d3437de8a9cfbe570eb4ca2/Randburg-police-station-officers-face-probe-20122510

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Irishman shot in head after horror attack in South Africa

By Graham McGrath -

21/07/2016

An Irishman was brutally shot in the head by a group of attackers in Johannesburg.

Bill Brogan is fighting for his life after three thugs viciously attacked and mugged him while he was leaving for work at around 6:30am on the 6th of July, outside his home. 

One of the attackers shot the 66-year-old in the face, destroying his cheek bone. He is in a stable but critical condition in hospital.

South African police still haven’t found any of Bill’s attackers Pic: Shutterstock (stock Picture)

Astonishingly, Bill was able to pull himself back to the doorway of his house after passing out from the gunshot wound, where is his wife Mary and son Conor found him a short time later.

Conor had to run to a nearby neighbours house to get a car to bring bill to the Netcare Union Hospital.

Bill has had two surgeries to remove bullet and bone fragments from his head, but his family aren’t sure if the bullet will be left in his head because it is dangerously close to his brain.

Bill is in a dangerous condition in Netcare Union Hospital in Johannesburg Pic: Getty (stock picture)

Bill’s son-in-law Denis Kaye told the Irish Independent that Bill is ‘in a very dangerous position’ and he’s ‘showing signs of improvement’.

He added: ‘We are hopeful that he will recover. We are cautiously optimistic. He seems to recognise his family’s voices and is trying to engage.’

Unfortunately, Bill hasn’t got medical cover in South Africa so a number of fundraising campaigns are in place to help raise the €65,000 that may be needed for his medical expenses.

So far the family have raised near €20,000 through a Go Fund Me page, with a number of people organising fund raising events in South Africa.

You can donate here.

http://evoke.ie/news/irish-news/irish-citizen-fighting-for-his-life-after-horror-shooting-in-south-africa

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WATCH: Members of the public laugh as thugs escape from police van

June 13, 2016 |by News24.com |

South African News WATCH: Members of the public laugh as thugs escape from police van

A video has gone viral that shows how two men arrested by the SAPS escape in from the police vehicle in Durban, while members of the public cheer them on ....

(Screengrab/YouTube)

The video went viral on social media on Friday and shows the vehicle, with Pinetown SAPS branding outside the Siza Hardware store on Stanfield Road.

One captive appears to bend open the bottom portion of the canopy's door and squeezes out. Then he is seen helping out a second suspect - all while onlookers cheer them on. There doesn't appear to be an officer in the front seat.

The two men had been arrested for possession of firearms.

"We are calling for a full-scale investigation into this matter. If police were negligent, action must be taken against them," Kaunda said in a statement.

"If a member of the community assisted the suspects, [the] law must also take its course. We are also disturbed at the behaviour of some members of the public who were watching as the incident happens and turning this into a mockery instead of assisting the police.

"We urge the people of KwaZulu-Natal to work with the police because it is only through [a] strong partnership between police and the community that we can fight and defeat crime."

The video was originally shared on the PharSide - Wildly South African Facebook page and already has more than 121 000 views.

http://www.all4women.co.za/765684/news/south-african-news/watch-members-public-laugh-thugs-escape-police-van

When our enforcement is not as effective as it should be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDi2eHEv2zI