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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.”

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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

- See more at: http://nehandaradio.com/2015/02/11/sa-cop-arrested-drug-trafficking-china/#sthash.wdSj8yFB.dpuf

http://nehandaradio.com/2015/02/11/sa-cop-arrested-drug-trafficking-china/

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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

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South African police are fat and sick: 76 percent of 53,000+ tested police members were fat and sick Polmed

Besides being 'fat and sick' other failures of the South African police also are increasingly noted by foreign diplomats. 

For instance, the US State Department 's advice to diplomats noted that the South African Police Service often fail to intervene during the socalled “service delivery protests” -- which frequently spiral into looting of small, foreign-owned shops. Migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who are perceived to be competing for jobs with South Africans are the primary targets of these attacks. Human rights groups note a strong ethnic and religious undertone to the attacks. Somalis, conspicuously Muslim in a majority Christian country, are frequently targeted. These attacks were increasingly violent and mainly occurred in South Africa’s largest townships. The government attributes the attacks to high unemployment; the official rate is 24 percent, but experts believe it is closer to 40 percent. Local law enforcement has shown hesitance in preventing looting and have been captured on video standing idly as shops are looted. As a result, foreigners working and living in urban areas feel helpless and are prone to resolve matters on their own, leading to further conflict and violence. "For example, in May 2013, a mob beat a Somali shop owner to death in Port Elizabeth. The act was caught on camera and posted to YouTube, showing the helpless man in the street as he was pelted with rocks. Eleven arrests were made, but not one was prosecuted successfully.

"For residential and commercial properties in affluent neighborhoods, the use of private security companies has become the norm for first response to a crime in progress. These private companies generally have one to two armed officers in response vehicles and are seen patrolling the neighborhoods throughout the day.

https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=15318

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http://www.dievryburger.co.za/2015/03/polisie-is-vet-en-siek/ 
http://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/members-of-saps-are-fat-and-sick/ 

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“Cops Ignore Looters”

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South African Police Service Cops Steal Own Mariuana

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“Police Station Refused to Help White Man...with lynching Black Mob”

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No Surprise there!

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Never Ask “What Next” with the South African Police Service

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South Africa: Police Officers hire guns out for crime

21 August 2014

When the ANC took South Africa over, they quickly reorganised the once-respected South African Police (SAP) force into the South African Police Service (SAPS).

How apt, you might say, seeing as the majority of police in South Africa these days do indeed service the community - with guns for hire, selling them drugs and doing their part in self-service by joining in armed robberies.

Yes sirree Bob. They sure do provide a service. Maybe not the service they're supposed to provide, but then this is Africa, and South Africa has gone from a first world country just a short 20-years ago, and morphed into another typical failing African state.

Their military is a joke, the infrastructure is crumbling, the economy is going down the toilet, and the country is run by clueless cadres. 

So, why shouldn't the police also join in the fun?


Hat tip: Nick A

Some Western Cape police officers have sided with gangsters and other criminals, provincial police commissioner Arno Lamoer said on Wednesday.

He told the Cape Town Press Club that 87 officers were arrested in the last financial year alone for corrupt activities such as selling drugs to gangsters and participating in armed robberies.

Of these, 20 had been dismissed. The rest were still involved in criminal procedures.

"We also know that some of our police officers hire their guns out to people to commit crimes," Lamoer said.

The department had registered all service firearms on a database to combat this trend.


Lamoer told reporters the province was afflicted by gang-related violence, substance abuse and illegal firearms.

The latest crime statistics released for the province showed a leap in drug-related crime between 2010/2011 and 2011/2012, from 70 588 reported cases to 77 069.

Illegal possession of firearms dropped slightly in the same period from 2 551 cases to 2 395 cases.

Gang-related crime was not indicated in national crime statistics.

Lamoer said the perceptions of communities were a more reliable indicator of crime than national statistics.

"I don't believe in decreases and increases of crime of more than 10% to 15%, to 30%, 40% because something must be seriously wrong in crime [statistics] for it to fluctuate that way," he said.

"We can celebrate the decreases in crime, but what difference does it make to a baby girl of 18 months who was raped? It doesn't make any sense."

He said the job of the police was to ask how they could go back to a community and change the perceptions of where they lived, or of the government that was tasked with protecting them.

Partnerships with various non-governmental organisations played a key role in keeping an ear to the ground and identifying victims, especially women and children.

Lamoer said these crimes were "sad and also very serious", with victims of sexual offences getting younger.

He said on Wednesday morning alone, he had heard of three girls, aged four, five and 10, who were raped in separate cases.

"It is with people that they know: their fathers, their step-fathers."

He said the police had "excellent partnerships" with non-governmental organisations such as Rape Crisis and The Pink Ladies, but more was needed to fight such crimes.

The partnership with the provincial social development department, for instance, was "not up to scratch" when it came to abuse.

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D-Day for Abrahams and colleagues

28 November 2016, 10:36am

Getrude Makhafola

National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams Picture: Nic Bothma/EPA

Johannesburg - Monday is the deadline for National Prosecutions Authority head Shaun Abrahams to make submissions to President Jacob Zuma and provide reasons why he should not be suspended following criticism over his handling of fraud charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.

Zuma wrote to Abrahams and the other NPA directors, head of the prosecuting authority’s priority crimes litigation unit Torie Pretorius and North Gauteng director of public prosecutions Sibongile Mzinyathi, two weeks ago asking them why they should not be suspended.

This was after a request by civil rights organisations Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) and Freedom Under Law (FUL) asking Zuma to suspend the top officials following Abrahams' U-turn on the criminal charges against Gordhan.

In the letter, Zuma said the HSF and FUL raised concerns with the manner in which the three advocates conducted the prosecution of Gordhan and former SA Revenue Services (SARS) bosses Visvanathan Pillay and Oupa Magashula. The prosecutions trio were given until November 28 to reply.

Last week, the North Gauteng High Court struck off the roll an urgent court application to compel Zuma to suspend Abrahams, Mzinyathi and Pretorius.

The application was brought by FUL and HSF and heard by a full bench of judges.

In the ruling, Judge President Dunstan Mlambo said there was nothing to suggest that Zuma was not considering the two organisation's request to provisionally suspend Abrahams and his two colleagues pending an inquiry into their fitness to hold office.

Following a letter to Zuma by the applicants in November 7, in which they asked him to act against the three officials, the president responded that he needed more time.

Within two days of receiving his answer, the applicants rushed to court, Mlambo said.

African News Agency

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/d-day-for-abrahams-and-colleagues-2093953

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Mbete upsets minister of police

19 October 2016, 9:59pm

CRAIG DODDS

Robert McBride

POLICE Minister Nathi Nhleko has lashed out at Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete over the handling of his request for head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate Robert McBride to face a disciplinary inquiry, exposing growing rifts in the ANC in the process.

Read more…….

http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/mbete-upsets-minister-of-police-2081685

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‘I’m angry at police for killing my daughter’

26 February 2016, 07:30am

Siyabonga Kalipa

cape town - 160225 - Phumeza Fudumele - mother of 2 shot dead - Zanele, another woman colleague, was apparently shot in the leg in Du Noon - by cops.

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Picture Cindy Waxa.Reporter Siya/Argus

Siyabonga Kalipa

Cape Town - “I’m angry at the police for killing my daughter.” Less than 24 hours after Nando’s worker Phumeza Fudumele was shot dead, her mother, Thozama Fudumele, spoke of her outrage at the police in the wake of her daughter’s killing.

Phumeza Fudumele, who worked at Nando’s in Sunningdale, was killed when police allegedly opened fire on a taxi transporting staff home in Dunoon on Wednesday night. Her colleague, known as Zanele, was wounded in the shootout.

Read more and see additional pics……………..

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/im-angry-at-police-for-killing-my-daughter-1990017