Police instructor arrested for rape of trainee

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The trainee had allegedly refused to visit the instructor in his office on previous occasions, but when she did, he locked the door.

Ipid spokesperson Phaladi Shuping said that on 31 March, a police instructor at a Phillipi Police Training Academy in the Western Cape called the trainee to his office.Read moreIpid arrested the instructor on Sunday, 21 April on a charge of rape. He appeared in the Wynberg Magistrates Court on Monday, and the case was postponed to 2 May for a formal bail application.

Ipid spokesperson Shuping said the unit welcomed the sentencing after it had investigated the matter dating back to incidents between 2018 and 2021.Shuping said the 26-year-old was released on R2 000 bail after appearing at Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court, where the case is being heard. “When it was time for them to go to their respective rooms to sleep, the arrested officer allegedly went into the room of the complainant, 26, and raped her.”‘They are throwing a last dice and hoping it will bring us down’ – ANC to appeal MK logo judgment‘It’s giving SWAT vibes!’: Is this Mzansi’s hottest police officer?

 

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