Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 09-10-2018
JMPD Police Chief David Tembe has told Radio Islam that undercover officers are needed to curb the spate of rock throwing on the city’s freeways.
Criminals use highways across Johannesburg in an attempt to hijack motorists by placing rocks on the road or throwing rocks from overhead bridges to get cars to stop.
Several motorists have been hijacked and even lost their lives in accidents as a result of the stone-throwing modus operandi.
Tembe says while visible policing is a deterrent to rock throwing, undercover police officers are needed to stop criminals from attacking motorists.
“When they see a blue light, they know the vehicle has passed, then they’ll throw the rocks at the vehicles that are coming because they know that with the blue light vehicle to turn around it will take a bit of time. If you’ve got an undercover unit, they won’t know who they are and then we have to clamp it down once and for all.”
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