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Cele bangs on about guns

Dec 14, 2009 11:53 AM | By Sapa

Police officers must not allow criminals to kill them, says National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele.


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Police Commissioner Bheki Cele
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quote Use the tool (gun) you have to protect yourself quote

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"No police officer should be killed while having a gun at hand," Cele said at a passing out parade of 1697 trainee officers in Pretoria.

He said the trainees were produced to protect South Africans and not for the grave.

"You should not be trigger happy but you must be decisive to protect law abiding citizens and your life, use the tool you have to protect yourself."

He said the police should not allow criminals to prevail over them.

"You must deal with criminals".

Cele warned the trainee officers that they should not be corrupt because once they collude with criminals, they would be arrested and their uniforms changed from blue to orange.

Cele has come under fire since he was appointed head of the police in July for his repeated calls for the police to protect themselves by using deadly force.

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Dec 14 2009 12:01:14 PM
nxila@thepub_with Schabir
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criminals don't go after policemen, they go after us the public

so why can't we be armed and ready for them?

why can't we have tools to protect ourselves? the real war is between the public and the criminals, why are they so advantaged?

Please let us apply for gun ownership, those of us who pass the test should by law be able to have a gun

When a b@stard enters my house with the intention of killing me, looting the house and raping my wife and daughter you can't tell me to rely on 10111. I need a flippin Magnum or Desert Eagle to blow that Mother####er to hell
Dec 14 2009 12:10:54 PM
mr president
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Nxila-

Finally there is a person that submits a comment that makes sense.

It's like the wild west out there between us (good guys) and the crooks. They get guns on black market for a few hundred bucks whereas we have to go through the process of training etc. You also have to state your case why you want a gun. You story above is good enough for me. If somone breaks into my house and trys to rape my girlfriend- dude I would (if I had one) get my gun and shoot him.

Our police dont fail us its the courts.
Dec 14 2009 12:13:18 PM
Sechaba-is-not-a-fake-Communist
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nxila@theshebeen or pub
I am prepared to vote for any political party that would allow us to be armed. ANC is only arming itself so that it would kill and scare us once we dump it in 2014 for the SEC (Sechaba's Educated Congress)
Dec 14 2009 12:16:50 PM
MAJUKA
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but realy this guy he is good moron ,every day he is repeating one thing police must protect themselves how about us citizens,must we rely on these stupid cops cause most of them they can't right or shoot .
Dec 14 2009 12:18:30 PM
hoodoo
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...and where are all the guns handed in...why have they not been destroyed... and why are the people not getting paid like promised for the guns...?

(I have heard that some of these weapons are sold off to criminals)
Dec 14 2009 12:22:34 PM
MAJUKA
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thats true hoodoo in mamelodi if you want a gun you can get one via police station under the counter and they are very cheap
Dec 14 2009 12:24:12 PM
Ngamla@Kasi
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How many people/children have been killed by legal guns? A wife who shoots her husband? It is good for this country to have laws which restricts us not just any tom/dick/harry should have a gun. Just imagine nxila with a gun!!!

The police are doing a great job, just this morning when I was driving to work they apprehended robbers who wanted to do a heist!great job guys.

Most of us are so irresponsible with a power a gun has,just imagine if u killed sumone, the trauma,stress and I tell u this, you will neva want to use a gun in ur lifetime.

So you trigger happy people/macho man who wants guns you dont know what u r looking for, just stick to a frying pan or golf stick!!!
Dec 14 2009 12:25:38 PM
Sechaba-is-not-a-fake-Communist
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I need a gun to protect my family from criminals. But I need a licenced one because I am a law abiding citizen. There is about 3% of us.
Dec 14 2009 12:33:06 PM
nxila@thepub_with Schabir
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Dec 14 2009 12:24:12 PM
Ngamla@Kasi

Just imagine nxila with a gun!!!


you are an ANC member aren't you?

I mean only ANC would give any tom/dick and nxila a gun maybe I'll ask for a complimentary BMW 750Li with BOSE sound, oh I forgot we are rolling in Porsches and Private jets now. Keeping up with the ANC members is tough

IDIOT! in a proper functioning democracy you take a test and lessons before you get issued a gun

not like Kasi where you come from, where you can get anything for a couple of bucks from a tender to body parts

Dec 14 2009 12:33:13 PM
ZENETH
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Come on Comrade Bheki. You cannot say one and the same thing wherever you go. Just send a Memo to all police stations.


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