EWN reports that according to Police Minister Bheki Cele, criminals who killed police officers should be tried for treason.  He made the comments after visiting the family of a slain police officer in Soweto on Sunday.  

Constable Nhlamulo Vukeya was shot and killed during an operation at the Nancefield Hostel in Soweto on Thursday.  Cele reiterated his view that an attack on a police officer was an attack on the state and that those found to be responsible should not merely be prosecuted for murder.  “In many countries that’s what happens, you kill a police officer, you’re tried for treason and not just murder,” Cele noted, adding that such action could see the number of police killings declining.

• Read the original of this report by Robinson Nqola at EWN

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