RE-COPE WILL REPORT ALLEGED NEGLEGENCE BY MHALA POLICE

RE-COPE WILL REPORT ALLEGED NEGLEGENCE BY MHALA POLICE

By crime reporter

COPE in Mpumalanga is intending to engage the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) and request it to investigate alleged negligent handling of a sensitive case by the Mhala police.

Riot Hlatshwayo says Mr. Dick Mathebula of Thulamahashe Township in the Bushbuckridge area and his family allegedly became the victims of police negligence when they reported a four year old girl missing last week.

“COPE understands that the family was turned back by the Mhala police who claimed there was a special policeman dealing with missing persons and they could only be helped once he was back at work in a few days time.” Riot Hlatshwayo said.

Despite the family’s information that the child had disappeared with her uncle police failed to even ask the uncle about the child’s whereabouts.

The family endured the pain of searching for the child on their own until they decided to also hunt the uncle down who later confessed to killing the innocent child and burying her near the Mtlumuvi River.

It was only then that police realized how serious the matter was and started to pretend to be working.

COPE says the Mhala police have always been attracting the attention of the media for the wrong reasons over the years.

A Google search for the Mhala police station has shocking results indeed.

Now that the Mhala police have attracted the attention of COPE for the wrong reasons, we are going to help the family open a case with the IPID for justice to take place.