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Crimes of the South African Police Service
Cop nabbed over theft of 18
firearms at Bellville police station
WESTERN CAPE / 20
JUNE 2018, 09:39AM / KHANYISILE NGCOBO
Cape Town - A police officer has
been arrested for theft and corruption relating to the theft of 18 firearms at
a Bellville police station, the Hawks confirmed on Wednesday.
The 34-year-old constable from
the Bellville South Community Service Centre (CSC) was arrested by the
Hawks’ National Bureau for Illegal Firearms Control and Priority violent
crime.
Hawks
spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi explained the sequence of
events leading to the arrest.
"Two firearms were seized by
SAPS Vispol members from two suspects on separate incidents in September 2017
and another in April 2018 respectively.
"Further investigations by
the Hawks revealed that the two firearms were among the 18 that were reportedly
stolen at Bellville South SAPS in August 2017."
Mulaudzi added that:
"Several firearms handed in as exhibits and deemed for destruction
apparently went missing from a storeroom at the Bellville South police
station".
The constable was then accused of
having participated in the theft of the firearms, said Mulaudzi.
He added that the missing weapons
are at the centre of a police investigation.
The officer is expected to appear
at Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Officers bound, weapons stolen in 'raid' on police station
BY DAN MEYER - 03 October 2019 - 16:17
The Hawks are looking for four men who held up a
police station in Windsorton, in the Northern Cape on Wednesday night.
A manhunt
is under way after armed robbers attacked the Windsorton police station in the
Northern Cape on Wednesday night, tying up the only two officers at the station
before raiding the safe for firearms.
“Yesterday
[Wednesday] at 10.30pm, four males entered the police station and tied up the
two officers on duty with cable ties," said Hawks spokesperson Nomthandazo
Mnisi. “They held the police officials hostage and took their pistols from
them. They then demanded to go to the safe and they took four pistols (9mm) and
two rifles."
She said
it was “convenient and normal" for there to be only two officers manning
the station, because “Windsorton is a small place".
The
suspects fled with their haul of weapons in a white Audi A3 with Botswana
licence plates, Mnisi said. It took the officers “about an hour" to free
themselves and call for help.
No
arrests have been made.
Mnisi
said the priority crimes unit had made progress on catching the culprits, but
said she didn't want to jeopardise the operation by making any more information
public.
Crimes of the South African Police Service
South Africa police 'lose 3,000 guns a year'
Almost 3,000 South African police firearms were lost or
stolen in just nine months, it emerged today – about three for every police
station in the country, which has some of the highest crime rates in the world.
5:10PM GMT 27 Jan 2010
The worrying
statistic comes less than six months before the football World Cup kicks off in
the country.
Dianne Kohler
Barnard, the opposition Democratic Alliance shadow police minister, said that
the state weapons manufacturer Armscor had recently ordered 4,000 replacement
9mm handguns made by the Italian manufacturer Beretta.
A parliamentary
committee heard that 2,944 police weapons were lost or stolen between January
and September last year – more than in the whole of 2008, which was itself an
increase on 2007, she said.
The recovery rate for
weapons stolen from or lost by police was "extremely low", Ms Kohler
Barnard added, in contrast to thefts from civilians, where it was 100 per cent.
The figures suggest
that, wittingly or unwittingly, South African police could be a major supplier
of weapons to the country's criminal underworld.
"I can't
discount that," said Ms Kohler-Barnard, adding that it was impossible to
say how many of the guns declared lost had instead been sold by corrupt
officers. "I don't know whether they are selling them or leaving them on
the counter at Wimpy's when they go to have a hamburger."
Investigations into
lost firearms were sometimes launched, she said, but "nothing ever comes
of them, nothing ever happens and no one is punished".
She called for action
to ensure that fewer police guns "end up in the hands in criminals.
"The thought that
a SAPS [South African Police Service] firearm might be used to shoot and kill a
SAPS member is unconscionable," she said.
The SAPS spokesman
responsible for firearms issues was in a meeting this afternoon and not
available for comment.
Almost 50 people are
murdered every day in South Africa, one of the highest rates in the world for a
country not at war.
There are concerns
over the safety of thousands of football fans attending this summer's event.
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Guns stolen from police...
Lynne Finney 1 November 2017
More than
2,000 firearms have been stolen from the South African Police Service (SAPS)
over the course of the past four years, an answer to a parliamentary question
tabled by the country’s official opposition has revealed.
Responding
to a written question from the Democratic Alliance (DA), Police Minister Fikile
Mbalula said that 602 police guns went missing in 2014/15, 630 were stolen in
2015/16 and 537 disappeared in 2016/17. Some 248 have vanished since the
beginning of April this year, Mbalula said.
“The reality
is that the SAPS is fuelling the illegal arms trade. Thousands of SAPS firearms
have been stolen over the past 20 years, and are out there in the hands of
criminals shooting at the police, and at you and me,” said Kohler Barnard, who
shadows the deputy police minister for the DA.
“This high number of ‘missing’ firearms goes far
beyond the occasional case of negligence, and is evidence of a problem that is
not unrelated to high levels of corruption and criminality within the SAPS.”
Crimes of the South African Police Service
South Africa’s weapon
technology stolen
Staff Writer 17 November 2019
A major security breach at state-owned arms
manufacturer Denel may have led to the theft of highly sensitive and classified
weapons technology information.
This is according to City Press, which reported
that President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the Special Investigations Unit
(SIU) to investigate the matter.
The report stated that the intellectual property
related to Denel’s missiles was stolen by current and former employees and
given to arms company Saudi Arabian Military Industries (Sami).
Many former Denel engineers with experience in
designing and manufacturing missiles are now working at Sami.
An army general told City Press that what happened
at Denel is industrial espionage and amounts to treason.
Read more........
Crimes of the South African Police Service
More Weapons Thefts From 9 SAI SANDF Military
Base
02 June 1998
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Meeting Summary
A summary of this committee meeting is not yet
available.
Meeting report
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE; SAFETY &
SECURITY PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE
3 June 1998
WEAPONS THEFT FROM MILITARY BASES: BRIEFING BY
SANDF
Documents handed out:
Press release: Statement by the Minister for Safety
& Security, Mr. FS Mufumadi, Bloemfontein, 3 May 1998 (included below as an
appendix)
The Deputy Minister of the South African National
Defence Force, Mr Ronnie Kasrils, spoke about the incident which took place on
the 18 May 1998, when a large amount of weapons and ammunition were stolen. He
explained how the incident occurred and detailed the new developments and plan
of action for further investigation.
On the 15 and 16 June 1998 large numbers of people
attended sports day at Tempe Army Base in Bloemfontein. This resulted in a
shortage of guards to man the Tempe Military Base and guard it as most of the
soldiers had participated in the sports events. On Sunday 17 May 1998, a guard
realized that two gates leading to the Transport Department were broken.
However, no vehicle had been stolen.
He was therefore not suspicious and did not make any
effort to further investigate the matter or even report the matter to his superiors in
command.
It was only on 18 May 1998, that it was realized that the
armory had been broken into. It was discovered that large amounts of ammunition
were missing. After this discovery was made, a white Brigadier in charge of the
armory disappeared. It was noticed also that the bars of windows at the store
had been sawed into.
On 1 June 1998 two soldiers were sent to Lady Brand
from Bloemfontein. They were transporting large amounts of weaponry by truck.
They were intercepted on the way to Lady Brand and never arrived as scheduled.
Lady Brand informed Bloemfontein about the delay and suspicions were aroused.
The Joint South African Police Services, Defence Force and Air Force instituted
an immediate search for the vehicle. Intelligence commenced investigating the
matter and soon discovered that the truck had been ambushed, with most of the
weaponry and ammunition missing...........
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Crimes of the South African Police Service
Weapons stolen from naval base South Africa
28 July
2016 - 08:26BY GRAEME HOSKEN
Fears are mounting that weapons - including hand
grenades, explosives and heavy- calibre machine guns - stolen from South
Africa's biggest naval base - are being stockpiled.
Hand grenades, machine guns, pistols and hundreds
of rounds of ammunition were stolen when six storerooms at the Simon's Town
Naval Base armoury were broken into at the weekend.
The burglary was discovered on Monday.
Western Cape community safety MEC Dan Plato said
there had been two other burglaries at the base, between March and April.The
police say they know nothing of the earlier burglaries.
The base is a national key point.
Other than a brief statement confirming the
"loss of various types of military equipment", SANDF spokesman
Brigadier-General Xolani Mabanga failed to respond to detailed questions on the
burglaries.
Captain Lloyd Ramovha,
Western Cape Hawks spokesman, said a housebreaking and
theft case was being investigated.
The military took flak this month when Rapport
newspaper revealed that security contracts for five of the country's biggest
munitions depots had lapsed because the military failed to pay the contractors.
Soldiers guarding Bloemfontein's Tempe military
base were attacked in August. Two sentries were robbed of their firearms and
ammunition.
A military inquiry found them negligent - it was
discovered that they had been asleep on duty.
Military sources told The Times that, among the
weapons and munitions taken in the latest burglary were 77 hand grenades, and
Uzi sub-machine guns and R1 rifles."An audit is being conducted.
There's a lot missing, including possibly 12.75mm
and 20mm machine guns, and explosives other than hand grenades."The area
is in lockdown. Military intelligence is working with the Hawks.
"This is being investigated as a crime against
the state," a source at the base said.Researchers and experts have warned
of the possibility of weapons being stockpiled.
Ben Coetzee, a small-arms researcher, said that,
because of the size of some of the weapons reportedly taken, such as the 20mm
machine guns, "it's unlikely that they will easily be moved out of the
country.
The only logical conclusion is that these weapons
and munitions are being stockpiled for some purpose".
He said that if heavy-calibre weapons such as 20mm
machine guns had been taken they were unlikely to be used to commit crimes such
as mall robberies."They're heavy and can't be carried by one person. They
will possibly be mounted on vehicles and used against armoured cash-in-transit
vehicles," Coetzee said.
He said the theft was concerning on many
levels."First, it is an indication that our security services are being
targeted to obtain weapons and that people are successfully obtaining these
weapons.
It shows the lack of security in protecting these
weapons."Defence analyst Helmoed Heitman called for a rigorous inquiry and
stepped-up security.
Kobus Marais, a DA MP, said the theft was a symptom
of a bigger security problem facing the country in terms of protecting its
sovereignty.
"It's not only this attack. Security contracts
for the protection of military munitions depots, which are national key points,
have lapsed. Weapons and ammunition, both obsolete and current, are lying
unprotected because contractors were not paid.
"This and other burglaries at Simon's Town
Naval Base point to a serious flaw in the security of military munitions.
"Plato said clarity was needed on how
criminals not only gained access to the naval base but also to the "highly
secure" armoury - and then were able to leave carrying the weapons and
ammunition without being detected.
Plato said he had received information that other
burglaries had taken place at the naval base."The police deny knowledge of
these burglaries but we continue to receive information about them and this is
[said to be] the third security breach at the base."
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Soldiers
robbed at knifepoint at Tempe military base
Wednesday
26 August 2015 - 5:28am
BLOEMFONTEIN - A manhunt has been launched after two soldiers at the Tempe military base were attacked and robbed of their rifles and ammunition by two knife-wielding attackers.
According to a police statement, the two officers were on duty at the guard room at the Tempe Support Warehouse on Monday when they heard noise outside at approximately 2am.
Police spokesman Captain Chaka Marope said when the soldiers opened the door to investigate, they were confronted by two men wearing balaclavas.
"Information revealed that wrestling between the attackers and soldiers ensued. In the process, the suspects managed to overpower the soldiers after they had allegedly poured them with pepper spray in the faces.
“The suspects then tied up the soldiers with their own boot laces on hands and feet. The attackers then made off with two R4 rifles with 30 rounds each and two cellphones belonging to the victims."
Marope said the suspects fled in a getaway vehicle which was parked few kilometres away.
A case of armed robbery has been registered for further investigation
Saturday, January 4, 2020
Crimes of the South African Police Service
You
Are Justified To Dread South African Police As Criminals
Post by Nedu
Often times,
we’ve heard motivational speakers say things like “Expose yourself to your
deepest fear and it will no longer have power over you”. Dear South Africans,
the police may not be our deepest fear, we however, have reasons to fear them.
And there’s no need to emphasize that we’re asking for a great deal of trouble
if we choose to embrace or expose ourselves to this police-fear.
We all definitely
know that we are probably, better-off without the police. The point is, the
South African police is to crime, what water is to seed. See Also:
Johannesburg’s Highway Robbers Versus The South African Police-See Video
Footage In a normal scenario, the police should be our major shield against
criminal violence. However, as you will read, those paid to be our defenders
have become perpetrators.
For Instance:
A police constable was found guilty 35
charges of raping sixteen women, nine kidnappings, seven robbery, two attempted
robbery, and one theft. Just one police constable.
Another 30-year-old constable faced 14
counts of rape, nine of robbery, and 14 of kidnapping.
A 21-year-old woman who allegedly went to
the Seshego police station to report a domestic abuse was raped by a warrant
officer there at the Seshego Victim Support Center.
A 32-year-old policewoman poured boiling
cooking oil on her boyfriend and he died from the injuries.
Two policemen were arrested for robbing a
Durban man of R500 000 at gunpoint……
Read more: http://buzzsouthafrica.com/you-are-justified-to-dread-south-african-police-as-criminals/
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Crimes of the South African Police Service
When the 73-year-old
driver of the car insisted she did not skip a red traffic light, officers
verbally attacked her. When her two grandchildren attempted to help her, they
were arrested for interfering with police duties.
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Africa
“He fell onto the ground.
Blood was pouring everywhere, over his face, his ears and onto the road.”
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