LETTER: Reining in crime
Government must ensure the police can do the job of developing and implementing effective crime-fighting strategies
07 October 2019 - 15:19
Just days after Stats SA released yet another list of shocking crime figures with more than 1-million incidences of housebreaking, Northern Cape police officers were attacked and robbed of their guns at a police station.
Four armed men entered the police station, attacked and tied up two officers who were on duty, before robbing them of their service pistols. The criminals stole the 9mm pistols and two R5 rifles from the safe...
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