Tsotsis must be profiled - Mbalula
Pretoria - Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula has called for repeat offenders or those who have had many cases against them withdrawn, to be profiled and for their information to be kept on record.
This as he ripped into the bail system after it emerged that a man suspected of hijacking and kidnapping Deputy Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Thabang Makwetla, was out on bail on another hijacking charge at the time.
“Tsotsis must be profiled,” he said.
Makwetla was hijacked last Sunday at the Riverdale hospital in Parktown, where he was going to visit a friend when he was allegedly accosted by four suspects who put him face down in the back of his vehicle and also shoved two security guards from the hospital, into the boot.
The suspects then allegedly drove off with him to an unknown house and then drove to an ATM and requested pin codes for the Deputy Minister’s bank cards and withdrew an undisclosed amount of money.