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Bulawayo, Matabeleland North police get new commanders
BULAWAYO and Matabeleland North provinces have received new police commanders following the transfer of their predecessors.Officer Commanding Bulawayo Province, Commissioner Patton Mbangwa, ha...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 top cops reassigned
THREE police commissioners have been transferred in a move that is meant to improve service delivery and performance.Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, who was at the Police General Headquarters, i...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Machete now a weapon of choice for armed robbers
THE emergence of machete gangs in Zimbabwe's mining towns has given birth to a new breed of armed robbers who use machetes as a weapon of choice since the broad blade, which is traditionally used as a...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'We have criminals among us,' says Bulawayo police boss
POLICE Officer Commanding Bulawayo Province, Commissioner Patton Mbangwa has said the first step towards ending the scourge of crime in Bulawayo was for residents to accept that "we have criminals amo...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Schoolgirl shot after police officer discharges gun to break up fight
A 16-year-old Bulawayo girl was shot on the cheek after a police officer discharged his firearm to stop a fight, her family alleges.The bullet went through one cheek and exited on the other....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Residents declare take over from police
Bulawayo residents have declared that they are taking over the role of policing the city from the Zimbabwe Republic Police due to the ineptitude of law enforcement agents who in most cases complain of...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 14:50hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo police residential flat on fire
A FIRE broke out at police residential flat in the Bulawayo city centre yesterday destroying household property. Investigations into the cause of the fire are ongoing but tenants said they sus...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 14:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crews plot attack on police
SOME rowdy pirate kombi crews operating in Bulawayo are reportedly plotting to attack traffic police officers at their homes in retaliation for skirmishes that occurred in the city centre last Wednesd...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police to get vehicles
THE Government is set to procure more vehicles for the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) whose depleted fleet is affecting the force in executing its mandate.Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage De...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 21:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Petrol attendant shot as violent crime wave sweeps Bulawayo
A petrol attendant was shot in the chest on Friday after armed robbers targeted a Flo garage in Bulawayo's Tshabalala suburb – the latest in a series of violent robberies in Zimbabwe's second city....Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security companies using toy guns, claims police
BULAWAYO'S top police officer has accused private security firms of using toy guns to scare away criminals which makes them prone to armed robberies when on cash-intransit duties.Officer comma...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Staff report
Cash-in-transit with toy guns, security companies rob clients
PRIVATE security companies contracted to provide cash-in-transit services are ill-equipped to the extent that some of them use toy guns while transporting clients' money, police have revealed....Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Choppies branches lose over US$11k in robbery
The armed robbers that stole seven trunks of cash that had been collected from Choppies branches in Bulawayo last week, made way with $194 287, US$11 315, R35 595 and 25 pula, after firing several sho...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo has only 6 police vehicles
Bulawayo police have just six vehicles covering a population of 650,000, the city's top cop revealed on Monday as he pleaded for private sector support.The city is battling an upsurge in armed...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cops meet security companies
POLICE in Bulawayo are currently meeting with officials from security companies and businesspeople as they are this week expected to come up with a deliberate policy to help curb the rising cases of c...Published: 31 May 2021 at 18:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Matanga orders Jonathan Moyo rape probe
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has directed police in Bulawayo to look for veteran modelling instructor Ms Sipho Ncube-Mazibuko as part of investigations following her rape allegations aga...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police follow up on Jonathan Moyo rape claims
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has directed police in Bulawayo to look for veteran modelling instructor Ms Sipho Ncube-Mazibuko as part of investigations following her rape allegations aga...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Massive reshuffle of senior cops in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)has reshuffled at least 700 senior officers from ranks between superintendent and senior assistant commissioner as part of an ongoing restructuring exercise. Of the 7...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matanga warns truant cops
POLICE Commissioner General, Godwin Matanga, has warned that all officers who don't report for duty starting from Wednesday next week will be summarily dismissed."I would like to take this mom...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe promotes 8 cops to senior assistant commissioner rank
President Mugabe has promoted eight ZRP police officers from the rank of assistant commissioner to senior assistant commissioners.Four hundred and three other officers were promoted to various...Published: 13 Apr 2013 at 04:56hrs | 6 | by Crime Reporter
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