{"id":34847,"date":"2015-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/34847\/another-scandal-rocks-middelburg-saps\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T09:51:18","slug":"another-scandal-rocks-middelburg-saps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/21\/another-scandal-rocks-middelburg-saps\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Another scandal rocks Middelburg SAPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scandal comes on the back of a photo released to the Middelburg Observer, of four police members sleeping on duty<\/a> in the radio control room of the police station.<\/p>\n

According to a source, the cars were targeted a mere day after the police members were sleeping on duty, leaving the charge office unmanned.<\/p>\n

The SAPS is currently investigating its members for taking the scandalous photo of sleeping police officers slumped in chairs and draped over a computer.<\/p>\n

The Observer has learnt that the top brass believes a white police officer to be the mole who leaked the photo, which has sparked national media attention.<\/p>\n

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The photo of on duty police officers sleeping, and leaving the charge offices unmanned.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The SAP 13 camp is situated in the backyard of the police station, and is secured with barbed wire. It is unknown how the thieves gained entry.<\/p>\n

According to a reliable source, almost all the cars in the camp had been ransacked. Car radios, spare tires, car jacks, batteries and engine parts were targeted.<\/p>\n

Stolen vehicles and vehicles used in crimes, are stored in the camp alongside motorcycles and trailers.<\/p>\n

W\/o Lize de Witt confirmed the incident and said that a single theft out of motor vehicle case had been opened.<\/p>\n

W\/o De Witt however admitted, \u201cthat a number of vehicles had been broken into\u201d.<\/p>\n

Police officers sleep on duty<\/a><\/p>\n

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Another scandal has engulfed the Middelburg SAPS last week, when thieves gained access to the SAP 13 camp, and ransacked almost all the vehicles stored in the camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":34856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}