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News24 reports that the words of newly-appointed Minister of Police Bheki Cele on Tuesday when he spoke at a memorial held for five police officers and a soldier, who were gunned down in Ngcobo, were: "We cannot continue to bury police officers. What about their children?"
It was a highly emotive service at the local Methodist church, which thousands of community members, family, friends and police officers attended. Family members of the slain officers gathered in the centre of a stage and each of them lit a candle as they paid tribute to their loved ones. Cele warned sternly that police would "double” their efforts in fighting crime and added that no criminal should be feared by the community. The law allowed the police to use every force available to them – even deadly force – when protecting themselves, he pointed out. He added: “I'm not saying they must shoot people, but do what the law says. As policemen and women, we have to apply the law within the Constitution.”
- Read this report by Iavan Pijoos in full at News24
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