Cop demands bribe from undercover colleague at illegal roadblock Citizen reporter
Picture: iStock/ 7713Photography According to Captain Kay Makhubela, 1,170 suspects were arrested by police during operations conducted across Gauteng this Easter weekend.
Two law enforcement officers have been arrested for corruption during a joint sting operation of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), SAPS anti-corruption and National Traffic anti-corruption units at the Easter weekend.
A 56-year-old captain from the SAPS Johannesburg Public Order Policing unit was arrested for corruption in Observatory, Johannesburg on Monday.
According to spokesperson Ndileka Cola, the captain conducted an unauthorised roadblock with colleagues on Observatory and Steyn streets
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South Africa must address the legacy of excessive use of force by the police
By The Conversation
Professor Frans Viljoen
South Africa has a painful history of police using excessive force against protesters. In one of the worst incidents under the apartheid government 69 protesters were shot in cold blood by police outside a police station in Sharpeville in 1960.
One of the legacies of that terrible day is that no one was held to account. No one was ever held criminally responsible or civilly liable for the deaths. Instead of identifying, naming and holding responsible those who shot protesters, the apartheid state brought charges of public violence against 70 residents of Sharpeville who were part of the protests.