Solving KZN taxi violence means flushing out dodgy cops - Cele
Police Minister Bheki Cele has acknowledged their crackdown on taxi-related violence in KwaZulu-Natal means having to swoop on some of their own.
He has established a task team, led by the Police Ministry, to get to the bottom of dangerous and sometimes deadly taxi feuds in the province.
Cele met with 18 taxi association representatives and key industry role-players in Ugu on the south coast on Thursday.
He said the recent spate of gun attacks in the Ugu and Harry Gwala districts has claimed the lives of at least 24 people this year.
Cele says he understands they'll need to flush out dodgy cops as well.
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"As people commit crime going forward they also bring in the law enforcement so we have to clean our house and the industry at the level of hitmen, but clean the industry at ownership level because these hitmen don't kill for free, somebody pays them."
Cele highlighted a case where a police officer was locked up recently.
"Somebody was sentenced and given 65 years and it happens to be a member of the police, which means police are finding themselves consumed in this kind of criminal activities."
