Police officer implicated in meat truck hijacking

Police have beef with one of their own after discovering that an officer was involved in hijacking a meat truck in the Northern Cape.

Two men who were hijacked in the truck were rescued after police stopped and searched a suspicious vehicle on the Griekwastad Road near Kimberley on Wednesday night.

They were held hostage at gun point with what later transpired to be a toy gun. A truck travelling with the car turned around but was later found abandoned with its cargo of meat in the veld near Riviera in Kimberley.

Four of the seven hijackers‚ who were in the truck‚ managed to evade arrest.

“It was also discovered that one of the suspects is a police officer at a local police station in the Northern Cape‚” said police spokesman Captain Sergio Kock.

“The suspects are between the ages of 26 and 31 and should be appearing in the Kimberley Magistrate's Court soon.”

It was the second incident of crime in less than a week that saw police nab one of their own.

A police constable’s brazen bid to rob a bakery with a gang of men flopped last weekend when he was arrested before they could reach their getaway vehicle.

The constable and three accomplices face a charge of business robbery in Mpumalanga.

-TimesLIVE