WATCH: RTMC warns TikTok creator to stop using law enforcement images

A TikTok creator has come under fire for using National Traffic Police, South African Police Services (Saps) and the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) vehicles in his videos.

The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) has expressed its concern over the TikTok videos created by Sunday Nkosi who goes by the name nkssa94 on the short video sharing social media platform.

Nkosi, who has over 77 000 followers on TikTok, posts videos of LSPD first response – which is the police modification for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto.

Watch one of the short videos that nkssa94 posted

@nkssa94 Get him K9 #fyp #k9unit #gta5 ♬ original sound – Sunday Nkosi

Videos distasteful

The RTMC has distanced itself from the video and its content, which they called “distasteful”.

“The Road Traffic Management Corporation has noted with concern a violent social media video game in which images of the National Traffic Police is used. The corporation distances itself from the video and it’s distasteful content.

“We would like to place it on record that we are not working with Sunday Nkosi, the creator of such content. We certainly do not endorse the violent content created on the TikTok video games, and our rights are reserved,” it said.

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Warning

The RTMC has warned Nkosi to stop abusing its brand.

“We call on Sunday Nkosi to desist from using our brand without our permission to develop his content,” it said.

Concerns

In December 2022, a US intelligence chief said parents ‘should be’ concerned for kids’ privacy on TikTok

In an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell at the Reagan National Defense Forum, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said it is “extraordinary” how adept the Chinese government is at “collecting foreign data”.

Guidelines

However, safety on the service began with community guidelines, Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, public policy and government relations director at TikTok in Africa, told The Citizen in September.

“These are the set of rules that are really like the “dos and don’ts” of what to do on the platform. They are very detailed and there are 11 of them dealing with a variety of aspects,” Sibanda said.

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