By Jonk wa Mashamba
news@alexreporter.co.za
If you are a criminal and you see these patrolmen approaching you, don’t run!
Running away from them will only worsen the situation. You better confess your sins and cry like hell before they marinate you. They might have sympathy for you.
The other option you have is to reveal right away who you are working with and never be smart.
Dying alone for your partner’s sins isn’t going to solve anything. Tell the patrollers your bosses’ names and apologize for being a tsotsi… we all make mistakes!
Remember, never fight the patrol officers, they will skin you alive with sjamboks.
“We don’t abuse anyone, but once the community complains about you, we will come after you. And we handle you our way,” Vincent (MK) Mdaka, the patrol commander of K9 said.
Although Mdaka never explicitly made it known when he said “our way”, but one thing for sure is that thugs won’t be free from MARINATION, a new term associated with Alexandra patrollers.
Since the patrollers existed in Alex, criminals have a tough mission. If it is discovered that a thug has committed a crime, the energetic patrol officers moer them mercilessly and take them to the police.
By the time the thug is welcomed by the police, he would have already trended with wounds.
Mdaka is one of the leaders who could not stand helplessly when his community was infamously called a crime-hot- township.
He said that he and other community leaders had no choice but to stand up for their people.
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He is the product of CFP. ” I joined CPF patrol when I was 9 years old,” he said.
A few days after his K9 was formed to deal with criminals, other members from different avenues also joined forces. He says a group of dedicated men and women patrol the zones together from three o’clock in the morning until late.
Last year, in December, he decided to continue to patrol with some members who had not gone home for the holidays.
He said he felt the thugs would take advantage and steal from rooms where there was no one.
“In December, we even saved someone we found badly stabbed. We took him to the clinic and he survived. He lives at 11th avenue,” says the commander.
He says that while the war on crime was far from over in Gomora, their patrols had a positive effect.
“Now you can go out at 12 or 3 am and answer your phone, we’re always there.”
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He said that the community had bought them equipment such as a walkie-talkie, handcuffs, spray guns, radios, gloves and uniforms, but they needed more.