Police take forever to arrive at crime scenes when telephoned. Police meanwhile use official vehicles to ferry girlfriends around, take their wives shopping, etc. Police frequent illegal shebeens while on duty.
Police are sometimes under the influence of liquor.
Irate members of the public no doubt can add other complaints to this charge sheet. They pale into insignificance against the gross negligence and incompetence that surround the discovery of 200 postmortem reports and crime evidence found gathering dust on the shelves of the Umtata General Hospital mortuary at the weekend. The oldest report goes back to January 1993. Police spokesperson Marinda Mills can't say how many of the 200 were criminal cases. Without mortuary reports in police dockets, prosecutors will have been unable to proceed with the criminal cases in court.