New station commander for Margate police
The newly appointed commander is no stranger to the Margate policing area.
MARGATE Police Station has a new station commander, Colonel Sipho Cornelius Thabethe.
Col Thabethe became an officer of the South African Police Service in June 1988 at Wentworth police station.
After training, he was deployed in Norwood (north of Johannesburg) and was soon promoted to the rank of sergeant. He was worked with Unit 19 – now known as the Public Order Policing unit (POP).
In the early 1990s he was deployed to the railway task team when violence was rife on trains in Gautang.
He was transferred to Gamalakhe in 1992 where he was promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer and became station commander in 1997.
In 2000 he was promoted to the rank of Captain and still held the post of station commander at Gamalakhe. In 2005 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and appointed as a crime prevention commander up until 2006.
In 2009 he was appointed the visible policing commander under the station commander Brigadier Morris Moodley.
The newly-appointed commander is no stranger to the Margate policing area.
He aims to involve the community of Margate in the fight against crime. He can be contacted at Margate police station at 039 3129805.
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