Johannesburg – A crime intelligence officer at Randburg police station has been accused of driving drunk – and being spirited away by fellow officers after a car accident.
Katrina Miller was driving up Main Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, passing through the robot intersection at the corner of Oxford Street in Ferndale, Randburg.
On the opposite side, about three cars behind the intersection, an officer driving a white, unmarked vehicle allegedly pulled out into the road in what was thought to be an illegal U-turn. Miller’s car smacked into the vehicle, sending both cars spinning into the middle of the road.
She said a passing ambulance stopped to assist her, as damage to her driver’s side door made it impossible for her to get out of her car. But what shocked the Randburg mother was that the man in the other car refused to speak to her or paramedics. He eventually made a call on his cellphone and, a short while later, a dozen or so officers swarmed the scene.
When she realised she was mostly uninjured from the crash, Miller called her boyfriend to come to the scene while police cordoned off the area and began their investigation.
She said one of the “leaders” of the investigation, a Captain Mabunda, told her that the man involved in the crash was from crime intelligence.
When Miller’s boyfriend, Gino MacRitchie, a former police officer, arrived on the scene, he noted that the state vehicle’s licence disc was out of date.
And when he looked in the window of the car, he said he saw a plastic bag with empty glass bottles being shoved under the passenger seat by officers…
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