Three Metro cops spent the weekend in the mang after they were busted for allegedly kidnapping a Goodwood man and stealing dop worth R15 000.
Various sources told the Daily Voice that the three constables, who are part of the Gang and Drugs Task Team (GDTT), got a skrik when SAPS officers arrived at their base in Philippi on Friday and arrested them in front of their colleagues.
“They committed the robbery on Good Friday (10 April) but were arrested on Friday as they stood on parade,” says a source.
“They were reported by a Goodwood man who says they moered him and stole his whiskey.
“The man and his wife were visiting a friend in Alice Street, Goodwood when the officers approached him.”
SCENE: SAPS at the Philippi Metro base
The source says the man had bought the dop for a fundraiser for his child and had left the booze in his boot.
“His child is apparently a Western Province dancer and he had just had a fundraiser function before the lockdown and planned to have another one.
“It is unclear how the officers knew about the liquor, but the victim says they moered him and demanded he open the boot.
“His wife had left to her mother’s house with the car keys and so they put him in a City vehicle and drove him to his house to a spare key.
“Then they came back and took his whiskey and left and he reported them.
“They thought they got away with it, but they were arrested and taken to Goodwood where they were charged with kidnapping and armed robbery.”
ARREST: The officers taken into custody
City Director for Safety and Security Richard Bosman confirms the arrest.
“The details of the incident are still being investigated so I cannot comment on it,” he says.
Police spokesperson Colonel Andrè Traut says the officers will appear in Goodwood Magistrates' Court today.
ARREST: The officers taken into custody. Video supplied
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