Alex News has been approached by baffled residents who thought South African police officers were nothing but a bunch of imbeciles.
This following a crime story on www.alexnews.co.za in which a man was sentenced to three months in prison or a fine of R350 for possession and use of drugs that were found at his residence on 12th Avenue.
Sipho Letswalo (33), who claimed to be a taxi driver, was arrested after a tip-off from a member of the public. A search of his house was conducted by the police who stumbled upon the drugs and a toy gun on 15 November last year.
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Police confiscated the toy gun and sent it for forensic testing. Some readers of Alex News wanted to know whether their police officers were so stupid as to not know how to tell the difference between a real gun and a toy one.
However, Alex police spokesperson Warrant Officer Moses Maphakela defended the cops for sending a toy gun for forensic testing.
“They knew from the onset that the gun they found in Lestswalo’s possession was nothing but a toy, but it needed to be checked for fingerprints that could link it to a crime that might have been committed using it,” he said.
Maphakela pointed out that the law required them to do so.
“It was not a case of them [police] being dumb, but more of collecting evidence and ensuring that this toy gun was not used in any criminal act,” Maphakela said.
There you go Alexandrians, South African police are smart after all.
Details: Warrant Officer Moses Maphakela 082 411 0188.
