“No matter how positive or convinced you are that someone is responsible for the commission of whatever crime, you do not have the right to reprimand anyone using illegal, inhumane, violent or deadly means to prove that the person was wrong,” said Captain Solomon Sibiya, spokesperson for the Kagiso Police said.
He added that the police and justice departments are responsible for managing activities and perpetrators of crime. He said police will continue to honour its obligation to bring anyone to book who takes the law in their own hands.
This statement comes after police arrested three suspects between the ages of 28 and 30 on 28 October at about 10.10pm, for allegedly severely assaulting two people on 17 October.
“Police were summoned to a scene of crime at East Park at about 4pm where they found a woman who pointed out one of the victims as her son. The two victims were lying on the ground whilst bleeding and could not talk,” he explained.
The two victims had sustained multiple injuries and were taken to a local hospital in a critical but stable condition.
Sibiya said although police could not establish the motive for the attack, they have opened and investigated a case of assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
“We are taking another approach to address the behaviour of people who promote lawlessness and undermine our authority as police by taking the law into their own hands,” warned Kagiso Police’s station commander, Brigadier Themba Maduna.
