IT seems that thugs are targeting metro cops.
Many metro police have been killed on duty around the Gauteng province while on duty. The latest incidents were two officers, one in Joburg and the other one in Tshwane.
One another 49 year old JMPD off duty officer was fatally shot in Ivory Park Ext2 and survived with bullet wounds.
With the continued killing of the metro cops, Joburg mayor Herman Mashaba has offered R100 000 for information that would lead to the arrest and possibly of the alleged murders of the officers.
The Joburg Metro department have said since 2001, 45 officers have been killed on duty including the latest who was killed on Tuesday 13 February.
Chief of the JMPD David Tembe said the department and other law enforcement are working hard to bring the culprits to book where they must face the full mighty of the law.
“I was waken up by the phonecall to the death of our member who was shot.
“The wounded cop was rushed to the hospital where he died the following day.” Said Tembe.
He said he visited the scene and the officer in the hospital. “Officers are traumatised.
On Friday in Ivory Park,is alleged that the officer walked to a spaza shop called Hello Telecom Mobile Shop with his friend next to Ivory Park taxi rank.
Minnaar said the owner of the spaza shop informed him that he had just been robbed of his tablet cellphone by three armed men.
“While he was still busy with the spaza shop owner, he was shot from behind multiple times by an unknown person.
During the early hours of Saturday morning, a 29-year old Constable was found dead in a pool of blood in his flat in Hercules, West of Tshwane.
Tshwane Metro Police Department spokesman Isaac Mahamba said the department was still in shock after the officer’s death.
This is the second metro cop to lose his life in as many weeks, following the death of another officer who was shot dead in a robbery.
“The Constable was supposed to report for duty but he did not show up. His colleagues made numerous phone calls trying to get hold of him to no avail,” said Mahamba.
He said one of the officer’s colleagues who lives in the same complex with him decided to go check up on him.
“He made a gruesome discovery, he found officer’s lifeless body in a pool of blood with his service pistol lying next to him,” he said.
He said an inquest docket has been opened by SAPS for further investigation, however, the possibilities of a suicide have not been ruled out.
The 47-year-old officer D.A. Ratshikhopha was wounded on Tuesday he tried to intervene when a mini bus taxi was being hijacked in Booysens‚ said JMPD chief of police David Tembe.
Tembe said the victim of the hijacked taxi was still in the quantum taxi when the incident happened.
"The suspects shot at the officer about five times and one bullet hit the side of his head‚ no arrests have been made as yet. I strongly condemn the shooting and every effort will made to apprehend the suspects‚" Tembe said.
The JMPD and the City had announced that a R100‚000 reward was on the table for anyone who would assist with information that would lead to the suspect’s arrest.
