EMPD officers arrested for connection with fraud and corruption. Image: Eye Witness News
(The Post News)- Ten South African Police Service and Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department officers have been apprehended while on duty on Monday for corruption and theft allegations.
Preliminary investigations reported that nine constables and a sergeant were arrested for taking a large sum of money during a raid in June.
Independent Police Investigative Directorate spokesperson Lizzy Suping said, “It is alleged that on June 4 during a multidisciplinary operation by law enforcement, the accused officers raided a shop in Edenvale where they seized cigarettes and took R35,000 in cash and three packs of headache tablets to the value of about R5,000.”
According to IPID, the alleged police officers then arrested the cashier for trading illicit cigarettes and another employee for violating immigration laws.
“It is also alleged that the accused officers failed to record all the merchandise seized from the shop at the police station. The shop manager disputed the quantity and type of merchandise booked in the occurrence book to the station commander,” Suping added.
The accused are expected to appear in the Germiston magistrate’s court on Tuesday, 05 August 2025.
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