Friday, March 29, 2024

Kitwe Resident beat up Drunk Police Officer manning Police Station

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Some irate Kitwe residents this morning beat up a police officer suspected to have been drunk, while manning Chimwemwe police post.

This was after one of the residents in Chimwemwe had gone to the police post to report a case, however the police officer could not attend to the matter, as he was allegedly drunk.

Lillian Kalaba reports from Kitwe that an eye-witness told the ZNBC news crew that rushed to the police post, that the armed officer was found sleeping and one of the residents grabbed the fire-arm from the officer and slapped him.

A fight then ensued between the residents and the police officer, who in the process threw a tear-gas canister at the crowd.

Suspects who were detained in the cells were also chocked in the process.

The News crew also found the police post engulfed in tear-gas smoke, as the suspects were being transferred to Mindolo police station, after officers from other stations intervened.

Efforts to get a comment from Mindolo Police Officer-In-Charge, and Copperbelt Police Commissioner, Joyce Kasosa proved futile by broadcast time.

Meanwhile Kitwe District Commissioner Chanda Kabwe has appealed to the Police command on the Copperbelt to arrest the increasing levels of indiscipline among police officers in the district.

Mr. Kabwe said it is unfortunate that a police officer who is supposed to be safe guarding human life at Chimwemwe police could behave in such a manner.

He said the Officer who has since been detained will be discharged from service if it is established that he was drunk while on duty.

Mr. Chanda said Government will not tolerate the levels of indiscipline and called for responsibility from all those charged with the responsibility of saving the public.

The incident comes barely a week after another police officer who is suspected to have been drinking hit into a woman and killing her baby.

The woman is recovering at Kitwe Central Hospital.

13 COMMENTS

    • When the rule of law is not properly enforced the general public takes matters into their won hands.

      Warning to PF police!

      If they wont allow other parties to campaign during the elections then people will react and rise against the police like they did during the Arab spring.

      Zambians are a different breed indeed. They may seem docile but called upon to change things they really get together and make things happen.

  1. There seems to be a very big problem in Police Service. From firing live bullets to ramming into innocent citizens while drunk. There’s no single day that passes without hearing of a Police officer being involved in disreputable acts. They don’t need an I.G who shields them (like what we witnessed yesterday in Kafue), they need a disciplinarian I.G who can fire such erring officers (following the due process of course). Enough is enough. If you don’t want the job, resign, there are thousands of genuine young men and women who can do better

  2. Its PF’ fault. Its Karma on Police. So is Kanganja going to say its political again without shame?

  3. Are all human created equal? We have failed to anything we could be proud of as an independent country. I feel ashamed.

  4. Are all humans created equal? We have failed to do anything we could be proud of as an independent country. I feel ashamed.

  5. Well done Kitwe residents. That’s the only way to deal with drunk ZP on duty. I was harrassed once by a drunk policeman at Emmasdale police post in LSK when i went there to report a theft. The i m b e c i l e failed to take down notes of my report because he was too busy drinking tujilijili right there at the front desk..

  6. Why are there so many women heading police activities? Was this well planned or it is just a spur of the moment decision by the infamous PF well known for 90 day promises?

  7. Unfortunately, this how the majority of Zambians behave and it had to take the mining companies to be breathalysing the miners each time they reported for work for the miners to be sober at work. No matter how many times we change leadership in Zambia, if we don’t change our attitudes the country will never develop.

  8. We have a problem with ZP in Kitwe their main interest is when there’s a case where one is owed money, they quickly intimidate the person owing & fabricate the charge. I wonder if we don’t have laws concerning domestic debts. It’s a wake up call.

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