Sunday, May 22, 2011

Shooting of policemen has reached crisis proportions

By Lelethu Mquqo
22 May 2011


National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele has strongly condemned the killing of another two police officers in Cape Town this morning.

Thirty-nine-year-old Warrant Officer Gurswin Matthee and 23-year-old Student Constable Cannon Cloete were gunned down in cold blood in Kraaifontein.

They were investigating a routine incident in the informal settlement of Wallacedene when they were confronted by armed suspects and shot dead.

In just a matter of three days, four members of the South African Police Service have been killed and a sergeant remains in hospital after being seriously wounded in Creighton, KwaZulu-Natal on Friday.

Cele says the murders must be regarded as a crisis and called on police in all the affected provinces to pull out all the stops to catch the killers.

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