The state we're in: Police lose weapons and car in hijacking...

[LeRoux Strydom]

I'm tempted to think this can only happen in South Africa, but being the eternal optimist, I would like to know if anyone knows of a similar incident anywhere else in the world. We sure have some brazen criminals around. Maybe the hijackers did not know their victims were policemen, they were plainclothes detectives in an unmarked car (presumably). Most (but not all) of these car hijackers are illigal immigrants from Mozambique, Zimbabwe or Nigeria, at least the ones who get caught.

Police lose weapons and car in hijacking

Police lose weapons and car in hijacking
Gill Gifford
November 17 2004 at 07:20AM

Four police detectives went to investigate a double shooting - and became crime victims themselves when their vehicle was hijacked and their weapons were stolen from them.

The four plainclothes officers arrived unannounced at the President Park home of James Dyer in Midrand on Monday afternoon. They had gone to take statements relating to an attack on Dyer's parents-in-law three days earlier.

As they pulled into the driveway, their unmarked police car was hijacked.

An incensed Dyer said that police had taken more than an hour to attend to the bloody attack on his relatives on Friday night - yet a large contingent of officers had taken only six minutes to respond to the hijacking.

North Rand police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman has confirmed the hijacking and theft of two police firearms.

LeRoux

[ZAMIRZ]

If that happened in the states the thieves would crash the police car, shoot themselves with the weapon and sue the city because of it.

[turbo6bar]

LeRoux, my cousin is a sheriff's deputy and has a drug dog. He leaves his patrol car running for the entire shift (to provide heat and A/C for the dog), even when he goes in for lunch. Criminals know stealing a police hot rod would result in the harshest beating when caught. When the punishment is harsh, the motivation is removed.

[Willem Fick]

Le Roux - It still doesn't beat the case of the ATM stolen from John Vorster Square police station in Johannesburg a number of years ago! ( from the first floor no less!!!)

Aaah, how boring must life in the first world be....