Durban – When a supermarket manager saw a police van parked across the road as he was locking up the store after working a double shift late on Monday night, he felt safe.
But when the fully marked police van with flashing blue lights and a siren began tailing Joey Pillay as he drove to his Moses Kotane (Sparks) Road, Overport home, he became suspicious.
Pillay lives about 3km away from his work at the Model KwikSpar in Mayville, which is right next door to the police station.
CCTV footage from the store showed the same police van circling the store several times from 7.45pm on Monday.
The store had closed at 8pm and Pillay was locking up when he spotted the police vehicle parked on an island across the road.
“I did not suspect anything as the police station is right next door. In fact, I felt safe knowing the police were around,” he said. The police van began tailing him in Moses Kotane Road, he said.
“It was a brand new, dark blue Nissan bakkie. It was fully marked and there were about five men in it. They were all dressed in police uniform with reflector jackets and beanies on their heads.”
He said he tried to dodge the van by turning into RD Naidu (Stanley Copley) Drive.
“They were not giving up. By this time blue lights were flashing and I could hear a siren.
“The policemen were indicating that I should pull over to the side of the road.”
Pillay said when he stopped, the policemen alighted from the vehicle and began banging on the boot of his car.
“They demanded to know where the drugs were and who I was selling it to. There were a lot of people around and they tried to make me look like a criminal.”….
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