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Police beat boy over stolen bag

   Did the boy steal the bag or not? Because now everyone is against the Police actions and no one says a thing about the stolen bag - Natangwe Kashihakumwa

   Police officers did you succeed anything through such violence in this case,... - Gerda

   now it seems police are more violent than a group of tsotsis. - thommy khoaseb

   This is so shocking,where on earth can a person can be mistreated as such?the boy is now psychologically disturbed.well even if the boy stole the so called school bag he shouldn't be ill treated like that,remember the law say a person is innocent until proven gilty by law in court. those culprit must be dealt according to the law.we don't want injustices to be done in our land of the brave.those intending to do the same should learn from then few month a boy was assaulted by the same city police and died in the hospital,You are there for peace keeping not to kill people.YOU ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW. - muyenga pontie

   This is a serious case of child abuse against the police. One wonders why the politicians quite when they were fuming against the Gobabis case. - Indongo

   For starters, this is totally out of hand and believe me or not those two officers does'nt have children and so do their elders maybe abused them in their childhood days. NAMIBIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS BECAME ABUSERS, ASSULTERS, DESTRUCTORS AND NOT EVEN A SYMBOL FOR THE COUNTRIES GENERATION. YOU WANT TO FIGHT BE MAN ENOUGH THEN GO TO SYRIA OR AFGHANISTAN OR EVEN TRY CONGO. As a father of four I really feel ashame to the kid and as for the teacher say must learn how to handle housekeeping, kids do play and their do play tough sometimes, so just to tell the otherone that it's time to go home dan't wast time and give each others stuff back you can play that way another day. Children soften when women ask favours in respect as a parent and I hope that this will not happen in the future again as we as Namibians will start acting like our neighbor country South Africa and that we don't want take action to FIGHT violence is not the solution. Start becaming familiar with your duties, resposibilities and as for to end my comment LAW OFFICERS is to COMBAT UNLAWFULL behaviours. but guarentee them try the right guys and you won't sleep at night neither walk the streets we are also tough guys but like our Nation espacially our children. SALUTE !!!! - Johnson

   Assaulting a minor and a very innocent young boy, defenceless for that matter, is bad - particularly in a democracy like ours. Therefore, a police officer who is allegedly to have commited such act does not fit to be a member of the police force. However, In as much as I not condoning an unbecoming behaviours by irresponsible individual "police officers", I am also cautious not to blame the whole organisation for an error commited by an "individual police officer". As much as the police organisation (Nampol and City Police) is responsible for the training, supervising, directing and controlling of police officers in the execution of their duties, one may always find those "bad apples" who harbour these uncalled for bahiours and actions. In that regard, such bad elements' action must be investigated so that justice can prevail. In the same vein, I also suggest that society should assume ownship of policing in this country in order to neutralise police powers. Such active involvement at all levels of society can send a message even to those individual "bad apples" that carrying a gun or handcuff does not necessarily mean that you are above the law. This can help both the police and society to understand policing responsibility and police powers - in particular the Constitution. It can also educate and insist the sense of responsibility in our society, starting from parenting level to the upper echlon of society. We should also take note that poor parenting can contribute to future delinquency among youth. These are persons who, in future, will become police officers. Without necessarily speaking on their behalf, in my view, police organisations are trying very hard to eduacte, train, direct and guide their members in terms of upholding the constitutional provissions, and respect of individual human rights. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that we only have "pockets of isolated incidents' like this. If we, every sector in society, engage ourselves in policing and continuing to assist the police, I am convinced that Namibia will have future good police officers as well as law abiding citizens. - Tuhafeni Helao

   This thing barbaric and inhuman behaviour of Police Officers brutally attacking civilians and abusing their powers will never stop. Reason being, Police Officers are always defending their colleaques. Most of the times if you go to a Police Station wanting to open a case against a Police Officer the Officers in the Charge Office always refuse to assist you or sometimes they might even threaten to lock you up if you insist on pressing charges. And if you are fortunate enough to open a case, this case will take for ever to be resolved or even disappears from their records. We as civilians are suppose to feel safe, at peace and protected when around Police Officers, not the other way around. Police Officers should learn to listen to people first, because NOT every suspect is a criminal. - G. Dumeni

   Really officers nawadays are breaking down rules. How on earth could Adult people attack an 11 year old boy in such a manner just because of a bag. Is it how we slove problems out? Come on people!!!!!! Hope one off this officer wont feel happy if its done to your on son. Thats really disgusting. - Lesley Braless

   please keep us updated on this case,what old man gang up on an 11 year old boy...this is not police behaviour pure crimanal behaviour if you ask me,an 11 year old having to plead with what should be the protector - janeth

   Thats really disgusting. A 11 year old boy. I think the police officers must be prosecuted and even for investigation purposes suspended cause the act that they do was against our constitution. Who trained these police officers. - ERICH

   that was too bad by the police officers. Helpless boy, lets remember that belts has metal on them and metals are equall as a weapon. they even did that out off respect, they beat the boy saying we are not your mother brother forgeting that the boy was clearly giving them respect by calling them uncles. The TEACHER must appologise too for creating the whole thing and fail to control the outcome. - Drosky

   og i feel very sorry for that kid but there should be something done to city police that beat up the people they dont want to listen,they are so rude,i wish i was involved in that case of sunday in wanaheda,they are there to help us,not beating us up,we are all namibians and what if it was your son,your family,we call you for assisting not to show what you are thinking of us.where is our human rights. - valoni bezuidenhoudt

   Oh! Else Keddy! A perpetraitor to the offence committed, anyhow,you are all innocent, it lies with the court of law, but you are a good state witness. The Police Officers and a teacher (for that matter) towards a child of 11 yrs....., maybe there some influencements (Bible Studies not in schools). - Tarah-Kenneth Ndemuweda

   Disgusting!! - Morty

   It was totally uncalled for. It's a defenceless kid of 11 years and not a die-hard criminal. - Riaan

   I remember my schooldays. We had school Management Boards, who had to deal with some of those petty cases, Im forced to ask as to where was the principal, why did KEDDY overlook the PRINCIPAL and OPT for GOLIATHS? It was just a bag........Schools without MANAGEMENT BOARD will never take appropriate measures. It is time you consider establishing such structures to avoid ignorant teachers running to NATIONAL FORCES for SOLUTIONS. - Sammy

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