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Police officer, two fighters killed in northern Kenya gun battle

A police reservist and two armed attackers have been killed in a gunfight in Kenya's northeast Mandera county near the border with Somalia. Security official Jeremiah Kosoim said a young boy had also been injured on Sunday during the gunfight that erupted as fighters were trying to destroy a telecommunications tower in the area. He did not give further details about the attackers, but Somalia-based rebel group al-Shabab has often […]

today15 June 2020

Local

Vicki Momberg to be sentenced over racial slurs

Vicki Momberg, the former real estate agent whose racist rant towards a black police officer was caught on camera, is expected to be sentenced in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Friday. Momberg was found guilty of four counts of crimen injuria on November 3 following her rant aimed at Constable David Mkhondo, who was trying to help her after an alleged smash-and-grab incident, which was filmed and shared online and […]

today9 March 2018

News

Lentegeur murder-suicide points to the need for police counselling

A Lentegeur police officer’s double murder and suicide has placed the issue of the psychological trauma faced by police officers in South African Police Service in sharp focus. According to Rafique Foflonker from the Mitchells Plain Cluster Community Police Board, policemen and women in South Africa are facing severe emotional distress due to the consistent exposure to violence. His comment comes in the wake of a triple murder-suicide in Begonia […]

today2 March 2018

Local

Police officer killed by shot fired by colleague laid to rest

The police officer who was killed when his colleague apparently discharged his firearm while cleaning it, will be buried Ravensmead in Cape Town on Wednesday. Constable Christopher Mouton, 38, was a constable for nine years. He got married in August and his youngest child was born in January. Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) spokesperson Moses Dlamini told News24 that Mouton was shot in the chest last week and died at […]

today26 April 2017

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