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Original Post Date: 2009-03-05 Time: 13:00:12 Posted By: Jan
Cape Town police appear to have been using bylaws that never made it onto the statute books to arrest prostitutes in the city, the Cape High Court heard on Thursday.
Sex workers’ advocacy group SWEAT is asking the court for an interdict to stop the South African and city police from harassing prostitutes by repeatedly arresting them without taking them to court.
Advocate Wim Trengove, for SWEAT, said police who claimed the workers were arrested for “loitering” had cited a non-existent clause of a set of draft bylaws which itself was never enacted by the City of Cape Town.
The police had also sought to rely on a section of a 1995 set of bylaws – which were enacted – dealing with people who obstructed traffic in public streets.
“This crime has nothing to do with loitering. It’s about disobeying a police officer after disrupting traffic,” he said.
Attempts to justify arrests on the basis of other laws, including a provision of the Sexual Offences Act that made it an offence for someone to wilfully exhibit themselves “in an indecent dress or manner” in public view, were also inadequate.
Trengove said records showed that at the Claremont police station, 106 prostitutes were arrested between January and December 2006.
None of these arrests resulted in a prosecution: every case was withdrawn.
If police at Claremont knew their motive for arrest could not be to trigger a prosecution, then their only motive could be harassment.
Speaking in Pretoria on Thursday, Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa said police officers were not above the law.
“Nobody has the right to violate anybody’s rights… that includes the police,” he told a media briefing on the justice, crime prevention and security cluster. He was responding to a question about police brutality and the treatment of prostitutes. “The mentality of ‘skop, skiet en donder’ is not part of the new dispensation,” he said. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20090305143823753C390852