LEAP vehicles damaged as residents in HPark thwart suspects arrest

The Western Cape’s Police Oversight & Community Safety MEC, Reagen Allen has condemned the recent attack on Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LAP) officers in Hanover Park when residents allegedly tried to help free a suspect.  It is understood the suspect was arrested on a charge of illegal possession of a firearm. The suspect, says Allen, was however, rearrested.

The MEC said this attack will have a setback for communities in need, as the vehicles are out of commission, after it was stoned.

‘’This is unacceptable behaviour and I condemn it in the strongest terms. The community members who allegedly participated in this lawless act should know that they have made themselves guilty of interference and obstructed officers of the law in executing their duties. Investigations are currently underway and where a case can be made against anyone complicit, the law will have to take its course,’’ said Reagen Allen, Western Cape’s Police Oversight & Community Safety MEC.

‘’I urge law-abiding community members to provide us with information about who allegedly participated in this lawless act, so that they can be arrested. Like all other communities, as the Western Cape Government, we want to rid our areas of gangs and crime, to offer our residents safer and more dignified neighbourhoods,’’ he added.

 

Done By: Mitchum George