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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