A video posted of Midrand Police Station officer has caused a stir on social media.
In the video posted by @TPAKKIES on 23 November, the Twitter user alleged that the officer was drunk and refusing to help one of the women in the cells who was carrying a baby with her.
"She can die, if she dies" so says a drunk @SAPoliceService at Midrand Police Station. When I asked her to help a woman, with a child in the cell shouting "Help Officer, help". No one was interested. @tumisole pic.twitter.com/MsxukwsuX6
— mfuneko (@TPAKKIES) November 23, 2019
The person tweeted, “When I asked him to help a woman, with a child in the cell shouting ‘Help officer, help’. No one was interested’.”
In the video, the officer can be heard replying to the person taking the video. The officer said that the person can cry, and whatever she does the officer will put write down. “It is none of my business… she can cry and she can die, and if she dies I will write an affidavit that the she died,” the officer said in the video.
*In the comments many shared their views on the video. Here’s what they had to say:
In a response to the matter, Gauteng police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said, “While at this point the police have received no complaint relating to a video clip circulating on social media, the provincial commissioner, Lieutenant General Elias Mawela, has sanctioned an urgent internal investigation to establish the facts surrounding the clip.”
She concluded, “It would assist the internal investigation if the person that captured the video, could contact management at the Midrand Police Station.”
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