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POLICE STATION ATTACK: DURING EARL Y HOURS OF THIS MORNING 5 POLICE OFFICERS WERE SHOT DEAD
South African Police Service | Eastern Cape | NARI

21 Feb 2018, Queenstown, Eastern Cape: The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Khehla John Sitole,has strongly condemned the attack on the Ngcobo Police Station between Umtata and Queenstown in the Eastern Cape.

An unknown group of armed suspects entered the police station in the early hours of this morning and without warning, randomly opened fire on the members on duty. Three members were killed instantly in the Community Service Centre. An off duty soldier was also shot dead as the suspects were fleeing.

The suspects made off with a police van taking two other members. The bodies of both these members with gunshot wounds were later found along the roadside, six kilometers from the police station. According to preliminary investigations, it appears that members were shot execution style.

This callous and cold-blooded attack has been condemned in the strongest possible way by the National Commissioner. "I am appalled and deeply saddened by the cold and callous attack on our colleagues this morning," said General Sitole.

"I have activated a task team comprising of experienced detectives of the South African Police Service and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation to investigate this attack," said General Sitole.

This team will be supported by specialized medium to high risk teams with the added support of the Airwing. "We will not rest until we have tracked down these heartless killers and bring them to book", added General Sitole.

The National Commissioner has also called upon the community to assist with any information that could help identify and bring these perpetrators to book as this is a heartless attack on the State.

While the motive for this attack is not clear yet we have established that the suspects have a robbed an ATM a short distance away from the police station, stolen 10 firearms as well as a police van from the station.
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http://news.searchsa.co.za/saps/eastern-cape/15191927921.html
 
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The police are out numbered 100:1, and that's without even looking into how many corrupt police thereare within SAPS. Is it a war we can win without seriously overhauling security end to end, starting with the borders? Nope.
 
Wow, rip guys/girls. I hope the perpetrators are caught and executed, or prosecuted. The I would prefer the first option.
 
reactor_sa said:
The police are out numbered 100:1, and that's without even looking into how many corrupt police thereare within SAPS. Is it a war we can win without seriously overhauling security end to end, starting with the borders? Nope.
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Build more prisons too and the the justice system needs to be amped up.
 
reactor_sa said:
The police are out numbered 100:1, and that's without even looking into how many corrupt police thereare within SAPS. Is it a war we can win without seriously overhauling security end to end, starting with the borders? Nope.
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Community needs to get involved.

RIP officers
Condolences to families and friends
 
R.I.P. to those of the "Thin Blue Line"

In any other country an armed attack such as this would be viewed as an act of terrorism, with the perpetrators hunted down and preferably shot on sight.
 
Did they attack the station to kill the 2 cops they took with or were those cops simply kidnapped and murdered because they happened to be in the bakkie? This is horrible.
 
Cr419 said:
Wow, rip guys/girls. I hope the perpetrators are caught and executed, or prosecuted. The I would prefer the first option.
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Prefer the former. The latter shouldn't be an option. Hope the cops that find them (and they WILL find them) execute the whole lot of them. %&^%% Bastards.
 
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