Nelspruit – A police office has been arrested following allegations of corruption, defeating the ends of justice and possession of suspected stolen property.
This occurred despite the Provincial Commissioner of Mpumalanga, Lieutenant General Thulani Ntobela urging members of the South African Police Service (SAPS), this week, to be exemplary to the public in their respective duties by avoiding corrupt and criminal activities as they will be arrested just like any other corrupt criminal.
The arrest of a 27-year-old constable stationed at Secunda, follows an investigation by his colleagues after they interviewed a suspect who was arrested for housebreaking that occurred during the first week of February 2014.
“During the interview, the suspect, a 22-year-old man, admitted to have been involved in another burglary that had been committed between the night of 17 and 18 January 2014, in the same area, were together with his accomplices allegedly stole a television. He further told the police that the television was taken by the constable who instructed him to wash a state vehicle, and then released him,” reads a media statement from the police.
It further reads that: “Police went to the member in question to verify the accuracy of the suspect’s version, and indeed it was discovered that he took the television and had already sold it to another person. He took his colleagues to the place where the television was and it was recovered.”
Both suspects, the constable and the other suspect who is facing two counts of burglaries, are due to appear before the Secunda Magistrate’s Court today, 21 February 2014.
