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EWN reports that the South African Policing Union (Sapu) on Tuesday said society needed to take a stand against police killings in the same way it did against other murders.
Sapu was reacting to the murders of two officers in Cape Town in less than a week. A constable was shot dead in Samora Machel last week. On Saturday, another officer was killed in the Strand area. He was off duty when he was stabbed to death. A suspect has been arrested. Sapu’s Tumelo Mogodiseng reiterated that an attack on a police officer was an attack on the state and went on to indicate: “We’ve been calling on the minister to influence the laws in Parliament to declare police killings as treason because when you attack a police officer, you’re attacking the state.” Mogodiseng also said the public needed to help police: “The country must come to a standstill when a police officer is killed. It can’t be business as usual when police are being killed.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lizell Persens at EWN
- Read too, Two off-duty Cape Town policemen murdered in same week, at EWN
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