The deadliest cops in SA are...

Go the cops in KZN!

Read the comments of the liberal wankers at the end of the article that say the killings are "unacceptable". Fuck that. I want those two wallys out in the middle of the night in total darkness chasing some criminal who won't hesitate to kill them, then talk.

Liberals, listen up, from me and all right-thinking reasonable people - you don't know what you are talking about so shut your effing pieholes!

Regular readers here will know that I celebrate a cop whacking a crim with a cheer and a beer. I regret that living in Gauteng means I won't become an alcoholic any time soon because our cops clearly are not taking their jobs as seriously as their KZN counterparts. Methinks I'll be moving to KZN then. I am getting kinda thirsty. But hey, my wife has a cousin in Durban. That qualifies right? 117 beers was it?..one..two..

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KwaZulu-Natal police officers have killed more suspected criminals than their counterparts in other provinces in the past financial year.

This was revealed in the Independent Complaints Directorate's annual report.

According to the report, 117 suspects were killed in KZN during the 2007/2008 financial year. The period also saw a 13 percent increase in the number of suspects' deaths nationally.

About 60 percent of the suspects were killed during the course of arrests and 11 percent were killed while they were committing crime.

Recently, KZN police came in for criticism when they killed six suspects linked to the murders of Kranskop police officer Supt Zethembe Chonco and three members of the prominent Sham family, of Durban.yAds('SquarLAV',12,15); In response to the deaths, community safety and liaison MEC Bheki Cele praised the police. He said at the time that the shootings showed that police were heeding his call to shoot at criminals and not die with guns in their pockets.

Cele made the call after Chonco and another officer, Superintendent Frans Bothma, were killed in separate incidents in August.

On Thursday, Cele said he would not comment on the report, as he had not seen it.

KZN police stations that came under scrutiny for more than five deaths at their stations included Durban Central, Empangeni, Greenwood Park, Inanda and Malvern.

The report said the "suspect" officers in the majority of deaths by police action nationally were lower-ranking constables, while inspectors were involved in 35 percent of cases.

David Bruce, senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Rehabilitation, said people should not be overly alarmed by the statistics.

"In terms of KZN, proportionally, the statistics are not that alarming.

"The province has the biggest population in the country and when you look at the percentage of deaths, it is only slightly higher than the province's percentage of the country's population."

"While I do not think there is a general pattern of abuse and excessive force, some police officers do probably use more force than is necessary.

"I also think the statements being made by certain politicians could also be contributing to the increase."

Inexperienced
Bruce said that the increase could also be owing to the fact that there were large numbers of relatively inexperienced police officers in the force.

"The police have embarked on a massive recruitment drive and you generally find that in these instances, officers will not receive adequate training.

"Therefore we have a lot of inexperienced officers who do not know how to react in certain situations, which could result in the deaths of suspects."

KZN violence monitor Mary de Haas said the statistics were not surprising.

"This is unacceptable. The police are getting away with murder, literally. We cannot deny that police do have to defend themselves in some instances, but it is very hard for me to believe that all these 117 suspects had to be killed."

These sentiments were echoed by KZN Law Society president Thoba Poyo Dlwati on Thursday. Dlwati said suspects' deaths at the hands of the police gave rise to a suspicion that there was a tendency on the part of some police to take the law into their own hands, in some instances.