Mpumalanga police are investigating audio and film footage in which a police official, apparently from the Sabie police station, cuts off a call from a resident trying to report an armed robbery.
The video recording, which has gone viral on Facebook, shows the same resident, whose cousin was one of the victims, physically going to the police station to try report the crime, only to be snubbed again.
“A complaint against the police has been registered and a probe is underway,” confirmed provincial police spokesperson Sergeant Gerald Sedibe on Tuesday.
The family was robbed at gunpoint in the Rosehaugh area at around 8:30pm on Saturday.
Sedibe says three armed men had entered the house where a couple and a sibling were staying.
The three were tied with cable ties and robbed of cellphones, a wallet, cash, a wristwatch, a necklace and a ring.
"The couple was taken outside the house into a nearby plantation and assaulted. The sibling was left inside the house with one of the suspects remaining with him. He instructed him to tell him where they kept the brush cutters,” said Sedibe.
According to Sedibe, the victims were rescued by a local security company who contacted the Nelspruit police station, which is 60km away.
Police have opened a case of house robbery.
“We are still investigating and up until now, this is all the information we have at our disposal, there may be other information regarding this case but we still have to confirm this,” said Sedibe.
- African Eye News Service
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