Police on being �nuisances� on the road

Police controlling traffic.PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Police controlling traffic.PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

The Botswana Police Service would like to respond to an opinionated article by one Richard Moleofe published by Mmegi newspaper on Friday 1st July 2016 on page 23.

Whilst it is not in our nature to respond to every article especially opinions about Police operations, we strongly feel that failure to react to such damaging insinuations will mislead the general public.

Mr Moleofe, who claims to have the know-how on conducting a roadblock in the process condemning how we as the police have been doing it, said: “When I was an officer cadet, my platoon commander taught us the drills of conducting a roadblock. Before anyone from the law enforcement agencies can set up a roadblock, they need to apply to a local magistrate to be given such authority. A roadblock by law is an equivalence of a search warrant and hence the need to get a magistrate’s permission”.

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