Metro policeman bust a second time

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A Metro policeman has been arrested for the second time in Wentworth after he was caught allegedly selling drugs to Hawks undercover agents.

Constable Craig Crowie, 30, was rearrested on Thursday at his grandmother’s flat, in Major Calvert Road – the same place he was arrested the first time. He was on bail.

Crowie was first nabbed on August 13 by fellow metro police officers, allegedly cutting up a 100g block of pure cocaine, worth R100 000. The cocaine was being packaged for distribution to Clairwood, Wentworth and Newlands East.

In the latest arrest, a source said, the Hawks acted after an extensive investigation which involved filming him selling drugs to their undercover agents.

http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/metro-policeman-bust-a-second-time-1.1911750#.Ve33P32-Opo

 

[HavocXphere]

A Metro policeman has been arrested for the second time in Wentworth after he was caught allegedly selling drugs

Criminals will be criminals.

 

[Wasabee!]

Criminals will be criminals.

As the naive say: it just takes a few kind words and some time to get him on track.

Rather do what they do in Saudi and set an example for others. Our government are real pussies.

 

[Hemi300c]

And after the first crime he is still called a Metro Policeman??
Has should have been dismissed immediately and shot on site for killing others.

 

[HavocXphere]

As the naive say: it just takes a few kind words and some time to get him on track.

Well the 1st world criminal systems clearly show that a "soft touch" approach to rehabilitation definitely works best. (Think Scandinavian countries not US).

...but I get the feeling that this is true mostly for those that strayed off the path rather then those that are just plain rotten to the core.

Either way...criminal elements in the police should be crushed mercilessly...they're a danger both by being criminal...but much worse they make the citizens lose faith in the police which you simply can't allow.

 

[Sinbad]

And after the first crime he is still called a Metro Policeman??
Has should have been dismissed immediately and shot on site for killing others.

To be fair, he's out on bail so not yet found guilty. I hope he was at least suspended pending the outcome of the trial...?

 

[garyc]

Well the 1st world criminal systems clearly show that a "soft touch" approach to rehabilitation definitely works best. (Think Scandinavian countries not US).

Here is how the Swedish police (the Piketen) respond to serious offenses.



After a little of while of working in Sweden I learned to behave myself. They have a lot less of a soft touch than we have in South Africa.

 

[grok]

100g block of pure cocaine, worth R100 000

R1000 per gram!

Life's getting really expensive..

 

[GforceD]

R1000 per gram!

Life's getting really expensive..

I think since that was pure and he still had to "cut" it the street value per gram would drop.

 

[AntiGanda]

And after the first crime he is still called a Metro Policeman??
Has should have been dismissed immediately and shot on site for killing others.

... or why was he on bail and surely as an officer he had the means to tamper with evidence.

 

[AntiGanda]

Here is how the Swedish police (the Piketen) respond to serious offenses.

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After a little of while of working in Sweden I learned to behave myself. They have a lot less of a soft touch than we have in South Africa.

Their jails are like holiday camps are they not?

 

[Compton_effect]

Their jails are like holiday camps are they not?

Maybe, but their response to violent crime seems to gradually changing.
Sweden shooting puts focus on life in 'ghettoes without hope'

The killings broke a nine-month period of relative calm in Gothenburg. After a double murder in early 2013, police poured resources into Biskopsgården, the deprived borough where Wednesday’s killings took place, which has high levels of recent immigration and overcrowding. Entitled operation Safe Gothenburg, the police targeted nine gangs across the city involved in turf wars over drugs, weapons and contraband.

They confiscated 200 firearms, including 50 machine-guns, and 30kg of plastic explosives. After 57 shooting incidents and eight fatalities in 2013, there were four deaths last year, while arrests led to the jailing of key gang leaders. The trend seemed to be clear.

In December, a dozen members of the Bergsjö gang were jailed and only last month, the leader of Bulls motorcycle gang started a 10-year sentence for violence. He had an earlier conviction for “crucifying” a man by strapping his wrists to a plank and leaving him hanging.

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Gang crime is not confined to Gothenburg – 22 Swedish cities are affected, said Magnus Lindgren of the Safer Sweden Foundation. This is a “new Sweden”, he said, which means new methods of crime fighting are needed.

“The main problem is the Swedish model of crime prevention which dates from the 1960s, trying to build a good society with good education and child care. That’s all very well, but we are fighting the crimes of yesterday, not necessarily the crimes of today or tomorrow.”

Friberg, the police chief, said police were working “to do as much harm to the individual criminals as we can” while trying to halt the trade in illegal weapons. Interior minister Anders Ygeman called for a doubling of sentences for gun crime.