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Original Post Date: 2008-03-01 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Someone once commented that ace cop Piet Byleveld has supernatural powers. So when the man heading a crack, hand-picked unit charged with bringing down the notorious bouncer industry – including the Hell’s Angels biker gang and the notorious Elite bouncer gang – says they should be “running scared right about now because they will all be arrested soon”, it’s no idle threat.
At first Byleveld, with small, framed glasses and dressed in a well-pressed grey suit, seems unapproachable. But, a few minutes into our conversation, I was so charmed and disarmed that I felt inclined to tell him my life story.
And that, say people who know him, is the uncanny ability of Director Byleveld, who has over the years sweet-talked, cajoled and intimidated many a criminal into making a confession.
This week Byleveld was awarded the SAPS’s Commendation Medal – becoming only the seventh person to receive it.
| ‘For years, these people thought they could walk on water’ |
“Just have a look at the back of the medal. It says 007. It means that I am only the seventh person in the police to receive this medal,” he said, enjoying the unintended comparison to secret agent James Bond.
Now he has been tasked with toppling the notorious bouncer industry, and already he his crack unit has made 50 arrests, with many of those taken down “singing like canaries”, according to Byleveld.
“For years, these people thought they could walk on water. But they are not in control anymore. I will get them all, that’s a promise,” said Byleveld, who has nearly 37 years’ experience as a detective.
Byleveld handpicked the five police officers in his unit, whose main aim is to rid the country of “this bouncer scourge”.
“I have a professional and experienced team – a drugs expert, a crime intelligence expert and two people who follow up information,” he told the Saturday Star this week.
“They are the best at what they do. I chose the people who I know will walk the line with me. Why do you think we caught the three top men?” said Byleveld, referring to Theuns Grobbelaar, one of the founders of Elite, and brothers Jacques and Deon Willemse, also major role-players, who were all arrested last week.
Three years ago, Randburg magistrate Deon Pool, hearing a case involving bouncers, expressed the feelings of many people when he said: “This is getting ridiculous. I’m tired of steroid-induced, violent crowd-control.”
But still the violence and mayhem continued – until 2006, when the man many call South Africa’s top cop was ordered to investigate the bouncer industry. Byleveld and his team have arrested 50 people involved in Elite and the Hell’s Angels.
That they have been so successful comes as no surprise to people who know Byleveld, who has a track record that speaks for itself.
He specialises in serial-killer investigations and sexual-offence and missing-person cases, and has been involved in solving some of the biggest crimes in recent years.
They include the arrest of Donovan Moodley, the man jailed for the kidnapping and murder of Bond University student Leigh Matthews, and the arrest of Lazarus Mazingane, the Nasrec serial killer, who raped and murdered several women. Mazingane was eventually convicted and jailed for life.
A year ago, Byleveld’s uncanny abilities were on display again – within minutes of meeting, Andrew Jordaan broke down and confessed to kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Sheldean Human. After confessing, Jordaan went on to point out the stormwater drain in Pretoria West where he had hidden Sheldean’s body.
Asked why he is so successful, Byleveld answered: “I try to give 1 000 percent in everything I do. That is something my parents taught me. And, in any case, I hate to be challenged, even in a simple argument. I just hate to lose.”
But it isn’t just being challenged that Byleveld hates – he also despises killers.
“Oh, I hate murderers. And that’s why we have to get rid of these bouncers. They don’t just murder innocent people, they also run drug operations and then murder each other. I am still looking for a man, who belonged to the Hell’s Angels, who went missing in 2005. His name was Fish. I am pretty sure he was murdered. I am going to find the culprits who killed him.”
Often, said Byleveld, it’s not “the big men who handle the drugs or commit the major crimes. Their lackeys do the dirty work. But the main men will approach the owners of nightclubs to force them to allow only their drugs in a club.”
Byleveld said he and his team have worked tirelessly – with very little free time for themselves and their families – in their bid to bring to book the men “who think they are untouchable”.
They have begun in Gauteng, he said, and when they are through there, they will move on to other major cities where bouncers have been waging a reign of terror.