North West MEC for Public Safety, Howard Yawa says that police conduct should at all times be above reproach and be in line with the pledge to protect and serve. MEC Yawa was reacting to a Tuesday media report that two police officers stationed at Brits police station are facing charges of attempted murder, theft and hijacking after allegedly trying to force a motorist to pay a R2 000 spot fine.
While noting that the motorist, Christiaan Wynand Rudolf Nel has laid charges for a criminal investigations and that the matter has been referred to a senior public prosecutor for a decision, MEC Yawa views the allegations levelled against the policemen in a serious light and has ordered that the internal investigation underway be expedited for completion within the next 14 days.
"There is no room for corrupt elements who compromise the integrity of the police service .The investigation will need to get to the bottom of why the motorist was not arrested if indeed he had committed a traffic violation and couldn’t also produce a drivers license, why the alleged financial transactions had to be conducted between the motorist and the said policemen and what led to the alleged shooting ,flight of the policemen from the scene and subsequent abandonment of the motorist's car?" says MEC Yawa.
Nel was allegedly pulled over by two policemen in a police vehicle on Monday at 03h00, supposedly for ignoring a red traffic light on the Brits main road.
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