Cop Cadets forced to eat out of bins They are being groomed to protect and serve, but police trainees say they are treated like animals or criminals by superiors who force them to eat food out of rubbish bins at their training college, and teargas their living quarters. The Cape Argus has obtained shocking video of police recruits scavenging for food through black refuse bins at the police’s Bishop Lavis Training College. The footage shows women and a man in police-issue tracksuits, standing around a black bin, scavenging through waste. Standing rules are that they may not bring perishable food back to the college after a weekend break, and trainees say they were forced to dump takeaway meals and home-cooked goodies they had brought with them. And a police trainer asked why police management were surprised when police behaved brutally, when at training level students were “degraded, demoralised and stripped of their dignity, all in the name of discipline”. The video has landed in the lap of police union Popcru, which is furious at the “inhumane and degrading” incident. Story: Warda Meyer (Read the full story in todays Cape Argus or on the app at myindependent.co.za)
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:05:00 +0000