Bulldozing criminal hide-out
The Zonkizizwe police officers swapped their firearms for picks and heavy-duty hammers and went to Zone One along the R550 Main Road to demolish an old building used as a hide-out by criminals. The demolition work took place on February 21.
Zonkizizwe SAPS communications officer Sgt Rufus Tema said the station’s commander Lt-Colonel Munaf Ismail led a team of police officials, Community Policing Forum (CPF), Youth Desk, patrollers, local hostel izindunas (headmen) and other members of the community, to the site to demolish the old unused structure.
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“This building has been used as a hide-out by criminals. It becomes even more difficult to police this place during the night,” said the station commander.
Ismail added: “In one incident a victim of a truck that was hijacked was tied with a rope and left there until the next morning only to be rescued by field workers the following day.”
As the team continued destroying the hide-out, a Good Samaritan who saw the men in blue demolishing the building and helped speed up the process with his TLB tractor to destroy it in just a few minutes.
Ismail said he was thankful to all people, including the man in the TLB tractor, who helped to bring down the building.
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