Cops slaap and shop oppie job – Officers probed for indiscipline after going viral in video<\/p>\n
A VIDEO of a cop tieping in a marked SAPS vehicle, with its blue lights flashing while his colleague was shopping at Woolworths, has gone viral on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the clip made by Member of Parliament Nicholas Gotsell, a Democratic Alliance NCOP Member on Security and Justice, he questions the cop about his sleeping, while armed and parked at a bus stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SAPS have confirmed that the officer\u2019s discipline is under investigation.<\/p>\n
The post on Gotsell\u2019s Facebook account has received over 5 400 likes and over 2 000 comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In it, he asked the cop who is apparently on medication: \u201cWhat emergency is this?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The officer answered: \u201cWe are busy with visible policing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gotsell hit back: \u201cWhat visible policing are you doing when she is buying a coffee?\u201d<\/p>\n
The officer then wyses: \u201cThat is her problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gotsell replied: \u201cAnd you are on medication, you just showed me, why are you driving? Go find a parking. I have informed Brigadier Van Niekerk [of Cape Town Central SAPS].\u201d<\/p>\n
To which the officer responds, \u201cYes, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gotsell said his intention was to highlight the lack of accountability and discipline within the police department.<\/p>\n
But the video has sparked public reaction that takes aim at both the cops and the MP.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gotsell said: \u201cThe facts are this took place in Green Point, which is not in Cape Town Central\u2019s jurisdiction, so they are out of their jurisdiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I initially approached the officer, he was asleep, and I then asked why he was parking where he was parking, and by then he had been parking there for quite a while while his colleague was in Woolworths.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite having his commander on the phone, he continued to argue that he had a right to park there at the bus stop on the road. I put this on social media yesterday because not much happens in situations like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
A social media user responded with: \u201cHayboo, are they not human enough to buy coffee? What do you know about visible policing?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another said: \u201cSo if he\u2019s on medication, he cannot drive? What seems to be an issue here? Buying coffee? Being on medication? Driving? Parking in a bus stop? Or the fact that you know someone in SAPS?\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacques Weber of the Community Improvement District (CID), also shared his views and concerns via the post: \u201cThat\u2019s exactly how members get targeted, killed, and worse, how firearms get stolen and end up in the wrong hands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops slaap and shop oppie job – Officers probed for indiscipline after going viral in video A VIDEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[15541,15539,15533,4858,15540,15543,15535,4857,15536,15544,13089,15532,5383,15534,131,15542,15537,15538],"class_list":{"0":"post-25202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-atlantic-seaboard-response-group","9":"tag-brigadier-van-niekerk","10":"tag-ca-video","11":"tag-cape-argus","12":"tag-cape-town-central","13":"tag-community-improvement-district","14":"tag-da-ncop","15":"tag-fc-van-wyk","16":"tag-green-point","17":"tag-hayboo","18":"tag-jacques-weber","19":"tag-nicholas-gotsell","20":"tag-saps","21":"tag-security-justice","22":"tag-south-africa","23":"tag-watchtower-group","24":"tag-woolworths","25":"tag-yes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}