The deputy minister of safety and security, Susan Shabangu, has clearly stated that the “police must use deadly force IF their lives and those of the law-abiding citizens are put in danger by criminals”.
Surely, this call is absolutely congruent with the stipulations of Section 49 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Act. The now famous shoot-to-kill utterances have been blown out of proportion, thereby creating a wrong impression that the police would become “trigger-happy”.
How long do you think it wl take policemen to decide that their lives and those of the law abiding citizens are in danger to enable them to decide whether to shoot or not? Will they be given that opportunity in any way?
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I like the utterances of the Police Commissioner when he said: " Police officers should only smile when they are shot at with cameras, and nothing else". By the time officers try to verify if the gun the criminal is holding is real or loaded, they would be dead. You lock your house and yard, then someone intrude by jumping a very high fence and breaking in; are you going to invite him in to explain what he wants? We will be singing "Amagugu..." or "Re baeti lefatsheng lena..." at your funeral. Shoot the bastard!
ReplyDeleteI'm appalled by people who are concerned about the right of criminals to life, whilst they careless about others lives. Or maybe they are beneficiaries of the evil deeds of these scums.
Let Law-enforcers emancipate our society from the ruthless acts of these notorious scums...