COPS came under fire in Elsies River on Tuesday as a police vehicle was struck by a bullet while officers responded to a shooting in Clark Estate.<\/p>\n
The shocking incident unfolded on Old Stellenbosch Road when police rushed to reports of gunfire and were met by a hostile skare, with shots ringing out and one bullet hitting a police vehicle on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson Constable Ndakhe Gwala said: \u201cElsies River Police attended a complaint of a shooting in progress at Old Stellenbosch Road, Clark Estate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon arrival, they saw a group of people gathered then they heard gunshots coming from the crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA police motor vehicle was damaged by a bullet during this incident. Police registered a case of attempted murder, attack on police and public violence for further investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Acting Minister of Police Oversight and Community Safety in the Western Cape Tertius Simmers strongly condemned the brazen and reckless act of geweld.<\/p>\n
Simmers said: \u201cAny attack on law enforcement is an attack on the rule of law and represents a direct threat to the safety and security of our communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThese acts of violence seek to undermine the authority of the State and endanger those who work tirelessly to protect our residents. Such behaviour will not be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n
He further urged mense to work closely with cops by coming forward with information that may assist in the investigation.<\/p>\n
Ward Councillor Charles Esau also condemned the incident and appealed with the community to be careful and safe and said he was against people attacking cops.<\/p>\n
Esau stated: \u201cI ask our communities to respect our law enforcement agencies as they are there to keep the area safe and to ensure that everyone is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111, make use of the MySAPS App, or call the City of Cape Town\u2019s tip-off line on 0800 1100 77. All information will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPS came under fire in Elsies River on Tuesday as a police vehicle was struck by a bullet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5528,4861,5530,5526,5525,5534,5529,3542,5527,4151,5531,5533,131,5532,5535,3537],"class_list":{"0":"post-7920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-charles-esau","9":"tag-city-of-cape-town","10":"tag-clark-estate","11":"tag-communities","12":"tag-cops","13":"tag-crime-stop-on-08600-10111","14":"tag-elsies","15":"tag-elsies-river","16":"tag-elsies-river-police","17":"tag-ndakhe-gwala","18":"tag-old-stellenbosch-road","19":"tag-simmers","20":"tag-south-africa","21":"tag-tertius-simmers","22":"tag-ward","23":"tag-western-cape"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920","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=7920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}