MEC for Community Safety Firoz Cachalia has set up a task team to investigate three police officials working at the Rabie Ridge police station.
This came after members of the Rabie Ridge Community Policing Forum gave the MEC information relating to corruption at the station.
According to the CPF members, who did not want to be named as they fear being victimised, one of the officers is a police captain who deals with dockets, another a constable who aided car hijackers, and the third was caught in possession of two unlicensed firearms.
They claim the captain influenced the courts to grant suspects bail, and that several dockets involving serious crimes have disappeared while in his care.
The captain has since been transferred to another police station.
One of the constables is believed to have been involved in a hijacking.
It is alleged he used a police car as a cover for his accomplices while they hijacked cars, and he was allegedly rewarded with a hijacked white Golf 4.
He has been arrested and dismissed from the station.
The third incident involves a constable who was caught in possession of two shotguns and an R-4 rifle.
The constable was suspended without pay while the investigation was under way. He has since resigned from the SAPS.
The CPF members allege the station commissioner became furious with them and accused them of meddling in his station.
Rabie Ridge police commissioner Phillip Khoja confirm that the officers were being investigated, but refused to comment further.
"A criminal case has been opened against the captain and the two are under departmental investigation," he said.
During The Star's visit to Rabie Ridge community meeting, Cachalia lashed out at corrupt officers.
"There is no place for corrupt cops in the South African Police Service," he said.
Mandla Radebe, spokesperson of the MEC for Community Safety, confirmed that there was an investigation into the three police officials's allegedly criminal activities.
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