HOW CAN WE EVER TRUST THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE AGAIN.........

 

Good morning, Colombia: Kidnappings, assassinations and corruption – SAPS is a systemic threat to SA

In September, Maverick Citizen uncovered that a single Mpumalanga company, Red Roses Africa, had benefited from a R515-million contract to provide disinfectant at grossly inflated figures.

 

This criminal behaviour by top SAPS leadership has severely damaged the standing and reputation of the SAPS and ordinary hard-working members.

 

As a result, they are often at the receiving end of public abuse and disrespect.

 

The shooting in the head of Len Cloete by a young female SAPS officer during an altercation in a Muldersdrift hotel room on 13 November is evidence of this.

 

In a video of the incident that has gone viral, the disrespect Cloete displays is clearly evident, first approaching the officers naked, then threatening them with a firearm while repeatedly insulting them for being “useless and cowards”, before daring them to shoot him.

 

The torn and tattered reputation of the SAPS at present puts us all, including honest cops, in massive danger.

 

A weak SAPS, infiltrated by organised crime and in cahoots with the security industry, is a toxic brew and one for which we have already paid a heavy price.

 

Justin Naylor, MD of insurer iToo has said that the reason families did not want to report kidnappings to the SAPS was because “there’s a general mistrust in South Africa about the ability of the police to handle a complaint and such a complex situation”.

 

According to Naylor, “It happens a lot in countries where there’s lawlessness, where there’s big inequality, poverty and political instability. That’s an environment where kidnapping thrives because that’s when people can get away with this.”

 

He said that “this environment where we’re in now, with riots, strikes and looting, this is the perfect environment for kidnapping to thrive”.

 

South Africa must wake up from this nightmare and demand that President Ramaphosa and his Cabinet do something about this, and fast. South Africans are peaceful, caring human beings who just want to go on with their lives. The ruling elite of this country owes them that much, and more. It will be, however, impossible to achieve even the faintest of these dreams, as long as the SAPS is turning South Africa into Colombia from the days of Pablo Escobar and FARC tyranny. DM

 

Carte Blanche on Sunday, 21 November will screen an investigation into kidnappings in SA and the role of corrupt SAPS officers.

COMMENTS BY SONNY

You have to contend with Kidnappers.

Secondly you have to contend with bogus Private Investigators.

Then you have to deal with the trauma of the ordeal.

LASTLY YOU HAVE TO PAY UP TO THE THUGS AND VILLAINS WHO TOOK YOU FOR THE DREADFUL RIDE…..

IT IS TIME FOR THE MINISTER OF POLICE TO HANG UP HIS STETSON AND RESIGN OR BE AXED.