POLOKO TAU
A police officer on suspension following her alleged involvement in a business robbery has been rearrested – this time with her husband and five others on robbery charges involving R160 000.
She was the 536th officer in Gauteng to be detained for criminal activities last year.
Police said the 35-year-old sergeant, based at the Moroka police station, and her husband, 49, were arrested at their home in Molapo on Thursday night.
Her cousin and two former police reservists were among the seven arrested.
The former reservists were expelled from the SAPS over their alleged involvement in a business robbery in which the woman sergeant is implicated.
Police spokesman Captain Mpande Khoza said the seven had allegedly held up security guards and tied them up before breaking into the Witwaters-rand African Taxi Association’s offices in White City last month.
Khoza said some of the robbers were dressed in police uniforms, while others were wearing private security uniforms.
“They tied up the guards, used a grinder to break into the safe and stole R160 000,” the spokesman said, adding that the seven were expected to appear in court soon.
In the business robbery incident, Khoza said the sergeant was on suspension following a robbery in Langlaagte, where R90 000 was taken from a shop owned by a Pakistani national.
According to Gauteng police, the Soweto sergeant was the 536th officer arrested in the province for various crimes last year.
Lieutenant-Colonel Tshisik-hawe Ndou said the arrests “emanated from the strategy aimed at rooting out corruption and fighting crime from within the SAPS in the province”.