News24 reports that the SA Police Service (SAPS) is investigating one of its police pilots who on Tuesday last week allegedly made an emergency landing in a parking lot in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, seemingly to buy a KFC meal.  

"They were on patrol in the Eastern Cape, but the question of them landing and why is still under investigation," national police spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said on Saturday.  Images went viral on social media of a police officer, who has not yet been identified, landing in a parking lot at a local mall in Queenstown at around 14:00 on Tuesday, where he proceeded to the local KFC franchise to place an order.  A Facebook post describes how the pilot did not land because of an emergency or crime being in progress, but solely to buy a take-away meal before returning to the helicopter.  While Naidoo confirmed that police were "following up on this incident", he added that it was an internal matter.

• This short report by Canny Maphanga is at News24

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