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Original Post Date: 2007-07-31 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Natasha Joseph
A 62-year-old woman arrested for drunk driving praised her arresting officers for their “good work” and “resisted” police efforts to administer a breathalyser test for “an hour” after she had been taken to a different police station to undergo the test – because, say police, “that’s where the Drager (breathalyser) machine is”.
That’s how Table View police have reacted to Carol-Anne Porter’s story of being roughly handcuffed, “thrown” into a police van, taken on a terrifying ride into “gangster land” and locked up overnight.
And while police have defended their actions, other people have contacted the Cape Times since the article was published on Monday, describing similar experiences.
| ‘It’s true that she was arrested and handcuffed’ |
Porter’s drunk driving case was postponed in the Cape Town magistrate’s court on Monday to August 20.
Table View station commissioner Leroy Nolan said he had been in the charge office on Friday night when Porter was brought in. “It’s true that she was arrested and handcuffed, and that she was taken to Bonteheuwel,” Nolan said.
Porter said she had been taken to Bonteheuwel, which the arresting officers described as “gangster land” about 2am on Saturday. She was breathalysed there, but said the machine was broken.
However, Nolan denied this. “(Bonteheuwel) is where the City Police are situated, that’s where the breathalyser machine is,” he said.
Nolan denied Porter had been “mishandled”, and said he would be making a statement to Provincial Police Commissioner Mzwandile Petros.
But Porter’s complaint is not the only one: several Table View residents say they have also been threatened by the local police, who have taken them on wild “joyrides” and roughed them up.
One Table View woman said she had been arrested at a road-block on October 23. Two police had “manhandled” her. They then “threw” her into their van and “tried to take (her) bag away”.
She panicked when they drove to a piece of deserted veld “out Milnerton way”.
“I thought they were going to rape me,” she said, echoing Porter’s words.
The woman started making calls on her cellphone, and the police then drove her to Somerset Hospital, where a blood sample was taken. She later lodged a complaint with the Independent Complaints Directorate.
A Table View man who laid a complaint of harassment against two officers after his arrest for drunken driving was allegedly told one of the men “already had about 10 charges of harassment” against him.
When questioned, Nolan said there were no complaints against the officer.