Johannesburg - Another case of theft from a police station is being investigated.
Bedfordview police station reported on Tuesday that their exhibit room had been broken into and cash and cellphones stolen.
According to Lieutenant- Colonel Lungelo Dlamini, the robbers gained access to the exhibit room by breaking the window of the station commander’s office. They then proceeded to the exhibit room inside the office and forced the door open.
The break-in was discovered on Tuesday when work resumed.
Thousands of rand had been taken.
Meanwhile, an Ekurhuleni constable appeared briefly in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after the theft of an exhibit safe from Alberton police station.
Constable Sibuti Petros Mazibuko appeared with Vusumuzi Ximba, 44, and Luvolwethu Eland, 24, following last month’s incident.
Their case was postponed to April 18 for further investigations and a formal bail hearing.
Dlamini said a substantial amount of money and a firearm that had been inside the safe were recovered from one of the men. “The safe has not been recovered,” he said.
The safe was kept at the exhibit store. It is alleged it was dragged along the passage and loaded into a vehicle. This could not be captured visually because a camera at the gate of the station had been tampered with.
The Alberton station commander, the visible-policing commander and an official from the exhibit room have been suspended with immediate effect for poor management and maladministration.