Top cop accused of licence fraud to stand trial soon
It is alleged the accused unlawfully instructed an examiner, a subordinate to him, to take a blank test paper, write the correct answers on it.
The trial of a top-ranking police commander accused of cheating on his learner’s licence test is expected to begin in the Benoni Magistrate’s Court in June.
The commander of the SAPS Benoni Academy in Northmead faces three charges of fraud, the unauthorised issuing of a learner driver’s licence and issuing a learner driver’s licence to a non-member of a state department.
The commander made a brief appearance in court on February 27 where his matter was postponed.
According to a court record, in March 2016 the commander unlawfully misrepresented himself to the SAPS Benoni Academy by stating he had passed a motorcycle learner driver’s licence test when he had, in fact, failed it.
It is alleged the accused unlawfully instructed an examiner, a subordinate to him, to take a blank test paper, write the correct answers on it, mark the test and file it as a test he had completed.
Between September 2017 and January 2019, the accused also allegedly instructed certain academy members to issue a learner’s driving licence in the same manner to another person who was not a member of the SAPS but the son of a SAPS general.
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