Cele urges cops to respond with ‘reasonable, proportional’ force
Police Minister Bheki Cele has urged officers to respond with reasonable and proportional force when they feel their lives are under threat.
Thirty-one police officers have died in the line of duty over the past three months.
Cele addressed hundreds of mourners and police officers at the funeral of Sergeant Kediemetse Masilo in Schweizer Reneke, North West, on Sunday.
Masilo and her fellow colleague Kaetse Mandindi were killed last week while tracing a stolen vehicle in Kimberley.
Both officers were attached to the Kimberley Flying Squad at the time of their deaths.
"Be vigilant and operationally ready to act in any circumstances,” Cele said.
“If force is required, it must at all times be necessary, reasonable and proportional. I plead with you don’t die with the resources and tools that we have given you.”
Constable Mandindi will be laid to rest in Pampierstad, in the Northern Cape, on Saturday.
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