{"id":9998,"date":"2013-09-05T08:23:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9998"},"modified":"2013-09-05T08:23:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:23:49","slug":"south-african-policemen-rape-on-and-off-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9998","title":{"rendered":"South African policemen rape on and off duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9156\" alt=\"saps5\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps5.jpg\" width=\"282\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>A police constable accused of statutory rape was expected to appear in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The constable from the Grassy Park police station, in the Western Cape, was arrested on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is alleged that the police official and the victim [14-years-old] have been having sexual intercourse between July and August 2013 at the policeman&#8217;s house, which is in the same street as the victim&#8217;s home,&#8221; Ipid spokesman Moses Dlamini said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The girl&#8217;s friend told her mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dlamini said each of the incidents had happened when he was off duty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, in a separate incident, a constable based at Macassar police station was arrested after being accused of raping a 23-old woman in police cells on July 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She had been arrested and detained for housebreaking and theft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is alleged that the victim had asked for toilet paper and it had been given by the suspect, who went back to her cell and allegedly raped the victim,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ipid was notified the same day after she opened a case at the police station. It started investigating but the policeman went off duty and disappeared for a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was tracked down and arrested on Wednesday and was due to appear in the Somerset West Magistrate&#8217;s Court soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ipid is an oversight body which investigates allegations of crime levelled against police officers. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police constable accused of statutory rape was expected to appear in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said. The constable from the Grassy Park police station, in the Western Cape, was arrested on Tuesday. &#8220;It is alleged that the police official and the victim [14-years-old] have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South African policemen rape on and off duty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[219,34,205,36,210,5829],"class_list":["post-9998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-police","tag-rape","tag-saps","tag-statutory-rape"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9999,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions\/9999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}