National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola says they’ve identified and arrested some police officers linked to the rising extortion cases across the country.
During a media briefing in the Johannesburg CBD on Thursday, Masemola revealed that extortion-related incidents were on the rise in Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal, as well as in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape.
Masemola said efforts to stop extortion were continuing and if South African Police Service (SAPS) members were found to be linked to the crimes, they would be prosecuted and treated as criminals.
“The DPCI [Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation] and other combat teams in Kwa-Zulu Natal have arrested some of our police members in that province where they were extorting R100,000 from a businessman. Eleven members and one civilian were arrested. As long as they do extortion or they do crime, we will treat them like criminals.”
-EWN
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