Metro Police was caught red-handed trying to drop off vagrants en masse in the south again on Tuesday morning, 22 July.
A Sun contact, who did not wish to be named, spotted the canter vehicle used to transport prisoners, in Umlazi.
“I recognised the vehicle travelling south on the N2. I pulled up to it and saw there were between 60 and 80 vagrants in the back,” he said.
“I backed off and phoned the Umkomaas police station commander and he sent a van to intercept them.”
The SAPS pulled off the Metro Police vehicle on the N2 south, just past the Scottburgh off-ramp. The vehicle was found to be unlicensed and was turned back to Durban.
“They had loaded these vagrants up in Albert Park and had planned to drop them in Umzinto. They come and drop them off in the south and our crime statistics rise sharply as these people commit crimes such as house or business break-ins, hijackings or theft out of motor vehicles to get back to Durban or support their drug habits.
If the police arrest someone, they have to transport them to a police station to charge them and then to an institution. Why aren’t they using an institution? Why must us home owners and business owners pay the penalty of them dumping these vagrants in the south?,” said the whistle blower.
Last week an eyewitness saw vagrants being dropped off by police on the N2 at the offramp to the Galleria shopping centre. It is believed some of them were rounded up from the vicinity of Durban city hall and dropped off locally.
“That’s twice in one week Metro Police have been caught doing this. How many other times have they done it and not been caught?”
