Man allegedly assaulted after filming ‘sleeping’ police
Two police officers from Eersterust, in the east of Pretoria, are under investigation for allegedly punching a man after he filmed them sleeping on duty.
National spokesperson of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) Moses Dlamini confirmed the body was investigating a claim of common assault, Rekord Moot reported.
This after Hashim Consalves, member of the Sector 1 Community Policing Forum, said he got word last week Saturday of two officers sleeping in their police vehicle while on duty at the station.
“I went to the police station and found the officers fast asleep. I walked through an empty police station and made a 20-minute video of what I saw before I woke the officers up,” he said.
He said he still had his phone in his hand when he knocked on their car window.
“The female officer flung the car door open, and it slammed into me. I hid the phone in my underwear to prevent her from taking it, but she forced her hands into my underwear and took the memory card out of the phone,” Consalves added.
He said the officers choked, punched and scratched him during the assault before they threw him into jail until the following Monday, when he was to appear in court on assault and other charges. However, the case was dropped before he could even make an appearance, Consalves said.
“I later returned to the police station and laid charges of sexual assault against the police officer who forced their hands down my underwear,” he said.
Dlamini, however, said the IPID had not received any mandate to investigate the allegations that officers were caught sleeping on duty. “We investigate crime, and sleeping is not a crime,” said he said.
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– Caxton News Service
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