On August 15 between midnight and 1am, my husband received a call from one of his previous employees for help.
He was close to the municipality and needed to get home to Tsakane and he needed transport.
As a good-hearted man, he went to help him get home. As he picked up the worker, five police officers in a double cab bakkie pulled them over.
Pulling them out of the car, they threw everything out searching the whole car. While two of the officers took them away from the car, another two were busy going through the car and one was standing with a gun. They were accusing my husband and his worker of dealing in drugs.
We appreciate the police trying to keep our town clean from drugs, but do not appreciate how they treated them.
When they let my husband go they asked the worker to ask my husband for a bribe and was given R100. When my husband got home he realised that the R200 that was also in his wallet along with the R100 they already took, was taken out of his wallet. So in total they took R300 from innocent individuals.
How safe can we feel if the police steels from you hiding behind a uniform instead of protecting us against the real criminals.
Disappointed resident
* Management of the Springs police take offences such as bribery very seriously and drastic action will be taken against any members of the police who make themselves guilty of such an offence.
We hereby urge the letter writer to come forward and assist us with more detailed information concerning the incident.
It is very difficult to launch an investigation without proper information.
Amanda Greybe
Spokesman, Springs police
