Another police officer shot dead:Thursday 6 August 2015. This incident brings the number of police officers killed in the country to 55, since January. (SABC) Another police officer has been shot and killed. His colleague was seriously assaulted. Police have launched a manhunt for two unknown men who attacked the officers at the Orange Farm train station south of Johannesburg after midnight. The officer's firearms and a security guard's firearm at the train station were taken before the suspects fled the scene on foot. This incident brings the number of police officers killed in the country to 55, since January. Police officers attached to the Railway Police were visiting the train station's guards when they were attacked by two men. It is believed that the motive for the attack was steal the officers firearms One policeman was shot in the upper body and died at the scene and the other was seriously assaulted.
He was taken to the local hospital in a serious but stable condition. The suspects thereafter fled the scene on foot. Police officers killed in prison hostage drama:Saturday 31 January 2015. Police say the situation is tense at the Johannesburg Central Police Station following the hostage drama which lasted until the early hours of the morning. (REUTERS) Two police officers have been shot and killed by a detainee inside the Johannesburg Central Police Station's holding cells following a hostage drama that lasted nearly five hours.
The police's task team was called in to take over after negotiations failed. The hostage siege started just after 11pm on Friday night when a man arrested for the illegal possession of dagga was brought to the Booysens Police's holding cells, which is located on one of the top floors at the Johannesburg Central Police Station. Initially police believed that the man took a service pistol off one of the officers, but they now believe he wasn't searched before being taken to the holding cells. The hostage drama ended around 4am when members of the police's task team swiftly left the police station. Police officer killed at Park Station:Tuesday 24 March 2015. A police officer was shot dead in at park Station in the Johannesburg CBD while responding to a robbery.
(SABC) A policeman has been shot and killed at Park Station in central Johannesburg. The officer and his colleagues had been responding to a robbery at a local bakery. Police spokesperson, Mack Mngomezulu says the incident took place on Tuesday morning at around 5am. Mngomezulu says the police were chasing the suspects on foot. “His service firearm was also taken. Mngomezulu is appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward. Police offered a R100 000 reward for information that could lead to the conviction of those responsible for the killing of a police constable in Erasmia On Saturday the police offered a R100 000 reward for information that could lead to the conviction of those responsible for the killing of a police constable in Erasmia, Centurion, Gauteng.
In January two police officers were shot dead at the Johannesburg central prison by a prisoner. Manhunt launched after police officer fatally stabbed:Saturday 4 April 2015. The policemen’s body was found by a passer-by in the early hours of Saturday morning. (SABC) Gauteng police are looking for suspects who stabbed to death a police colonel in Turffontein in the south of Johannesburg on Saturday. The colonel was attacked after clocking off duty. His body was found by a passer-by in the early hours of Saturday morning. Police Spokesperson Colonel Noxolo Kweza says, “A senior member from the SAPS (The South African Police Service) was found by a member of the community.
They found the body on the street and they phoned the police, then the police responded and confirmed it was a member of the SAPS.” Meanwhile, six Gauteng police officers had lost their lives in the line of duty this year before the three who have been slain in the last few days. This has emerged as police announced a reward of up to R 400 000 for information leading to the arrest of suspects in the latest killing of three police officers. The biggest problem we have is illegal firearms. Eighty five cops killed in the past twelve months:Saturday 4 April 2015.
On March 29, three officers were shot by unknown men on the N3 in Modderfontein, east of Johannesburg. (SABC) Eighty five police officers were killed in the past 12 months, the police ministry said on Saturday. “One police officer serves at least 340 people in this country. Up until now, eighty five of our officers have been killed since March/April last year, leaving many people without the service of a police officer,” said spokesperson Musa Zondi.
“The Minister [of Police Nkosinathi Nhleko] views the ongoing killing of police men and women as a nation that intent on robbing itself of hardworking civil servants.’ The body of a member of the public order policing was found in Turffontein, south of Johannesburg on Saturday. The commander had been stabbed to death, Gauteng police said. On March 24, twelve armed men shot and killed a constable following an attempted armed robbery at Johannesburg’s Park Station. The alleged killers stole his service pistol. Nhleko condemns police killings:Monday 6 April 2015. Colonel David Makhubela was killed on Friday . (SABC) Police Minister Nathi Nhleko has condemned the killings and attacking of police officers. Nhleko says the South African society has a role to play in ensuring that the country is safe and that those responsible for the killings face the full might of the law.
According to the Nhleko, a sense of responsibility and ownership of the policing unit should be cultivated in communities. "The police as a unit are the only instrument used for the fight against crime, if we kill the police, we kill ourselves. " Click below to watch Minister Nathi Nhleko's interview Gauteng is the leading province in killings and attacks on police officials. The officer's killing comes less than a week after a gang shot dead two police officers on the N3 highway near Modderfontein, east of Johannesburg. In in KwaZulu-Natal police have launched a manhunt for suspects after a policeman was stabbed and left critically wounded in Alexandra, Pietermaritzburg. Suspects in police killings in court:Tuesday 7 April 2015.
The suspects have been charged with murder and possession of unlicenced firearms. (SABC) Five suspects who have been arrested in connection to the murder of three policemen in two separate incidents will appear in court on Tuesday morning. Last week, two policemen were fatally shot on the N3 on Johannesburg's East Rand. Another was fatally wounded in a shooting at Park Station in the Johannesburg CBD. According to the police's Noxolo Kweza, the suspects were arrested in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal. Kweza says, "We have arrested five suspects in connection with the killings of the two police officers on the N3 last week and another police officer in Johannesburg Park Station two weeks ago.
" The suspects have been charged with murder and possession of unlicenced firearms. Gauteng family mourns death of police officer:Sunday 12 July 2015. Warrant officer Sbusiso Ndlovu was killed while on duty in Jeppestown. (SABC) The number ofilled on and off duty is increasing. Two more officers were killed in the line of duty in Gauteng this weekend. One was killed on the East Rand when he assisted his neighbours during an armed robbery and another was killed during a Jeppestown robbery. Warrant officer Sbusiso Ndlovu was killed while in the line of duty. Ndlovu’s brother Bheki Ndlovu says he was a unifier who solved family problems.
A bakery was being robbed near the Jeppestown Hostel. “One suspect was arrested. For Ndlovu's family, funeral arrangements are already underway. Click below to listen to the video: