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Graphic depicting an arrest
A police constable is among a group of suspected business robbers who were arrested after making off with cellphones from a shop in the Durban CBD on New Year’s Eve.
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says the constable had his appointment certificate and service pistol with him when the group was arrested.
Mkhwanazi has condemned such behaviour on the part of police officers in whom the public places their trust.
“It was a robbery of cellphones where people were robbed. That shop was robbed of their cellphones by this group of men. And when they took one of the employees of that establishment and when they were going away with that person, luckily there were a lot of police patrols around. So, the police picked up something was happening and they responded. That’s why the arrest happened immediately and the recovery of some goods that were stolen happened.”
