Government yesterday redeployed close to 500 police officers who were at different stations in Beitbridge District to other stations countrywide, amid allegations of failure to deliver their duties to expectations. Sources in the border town said only officers from the Police Protection Unit were spared from the massive redeployment.They also alleged that the poor handling of the illegal demonstrations on July 1, which saw a mob calling themselves Combined Beitbridge Residents Association, destroying property including; traffic lights, vehicles and burning a state warehouse had also raised the ire of Government.
In a recent interview, State Security Minister Kembo Mohadi said the police failed to react on time at the height of the demonstration against the new import laws (Statutory Instrument No. 64 of 2016), though they had information on the planned demo.
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