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TimesLIVE reports that at least 131 police officers, security members and government officials — specifically councillors — have been arrested for Covid-19-related lockdown crimes over the past month.
Police minister Bheki Cele said 89 police officers formed part of the overall figure. Briefing the media during a visit to Durban on Wednesday to assess adherence in the province to the Covid-19 lockdown regulations, Cele indicated that councillors, health officials and department of correctional service members were among the government officials arrested. Among the 89 officers arrested were two sergeants from Katlehong in Gauteng who were arrested after allegedly demanding a R12,000 bribe from a businessman who had contravened the lockdown regulations. Of the other members, he advised as follows: “Some were caught drinking; some for buying and selling liquor; some for corruption and defeating the ends of justice; some for organising gatherings in contravention of the regulations; some even going as far as allegedly staging break-ins in the Western Cape just to go and steal alcohol from closed liquor outlets.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Orrin Singh at TimesLIVE
- See too, Cele reports that 89 police officers arrested during lockdown, at The Citizen
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