Dangerous Incorporated
12-21-2006, 12:22 AM
South African thieves break into cop station
Thieves broke into a busy Johannesburg police station, helped themselves to liquor and started a fire in the commissioner's office, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Beeld said not even the electronic security doors in front of Commissioner Simon Mpembe's office in Johannesburg central police station could stop the burglars from lifting his "treasured golden teaspoons".
Aside from starting a fire on Mpembe's wooden floor, they also took sweets from his secretary's office and two cellphones were stolen, the newspaper said.
Police spokesman Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said he had no information that the burglars set the commissioner's floor on fire and helped themselves to liquor but confirmed they broke into the canteen.
"They took food from the canteen for people who are waiting trial. They took two mobile telephones from the office of the commissioner's secretary," he said.
Source: BBC News
Thieves broke into a busy Johannesburg police station, helped themselves to liquor and started a fire in the commissioner's office, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Beeld said not even the electronic security doors in front of Commissioner Simon Mpembe's office in Johannesburg central police station could stop the burglars from lifting his "treasured golden teaspoons".
Aside from starting a fire on Mpembe's wooden floor, they also took sweets from his secretary's office and two cellphones were stolen, the newspaper said.
Police spokesman Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said he had no information that the burglars set the commissioner's floor on fire and helped themselves to liquor but confirmed they broke into the canteen.
"They took food from the canteen for people who are waiting trial. They took two mobile telephones from the office of the commissioner's secretary," he said.
Source: BBC News