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Rogue cop and 'killer' businessman remanded over brutal murder
A shocking betrayal has plunged the Plumtree community into outrage as a serving police officer, Thembani Mukanyani (39), and his alleged accomplice, Cabangani Mathe (35), were remanded in custody on ...Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 15:06hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's rogue cops hijack cars in broad daylight
"Stop, open the door, and drive to the station!"These chilling words have become a familiar horror for Zimbabwean motorists, often delivered with alarming ease by uniformed traffic police offi...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 13:23hrs | 1608 | by Staff reporter
Rogue cop remanded over shocking murder of rape victim
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer accused of facilitating the cold-blooded murder of a rape complainant by handing her over to her alleged attacker has been remanded in custody alongside his co...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:16hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
7 top rogue cops arrested, dragged to court
Seven high-ranking detectives from the Zimbabwe Republic Police's homicide unit in Bulawayo have been charged with theft, criminal abuse of office, and obstruction of justice following their alleged i...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:38hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Cop implicated in US$53 000 robbery loot
Police have launched a manhunt for one of the six police officers implicated in the seizure of about US$25 500 cash from two security guards who picked us$53 000 that was dropped during a robbery at Q...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Rogue cop jailed
A Bindura-based police who squandered a US$40 fine that had been paid by a suspect, who was facing charges of sleeping with a minor was sent to jail yesterday at Bindura magistrates courts.Ben...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 08:29hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kazembe blames police corruption on citizens
Home affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has a plan to deal with police corruption: Zimbabweans must stop paying bribes, he told the Senate on Thursday.Kazembe admitted corruption was rampant in ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 18:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rogue cops linked to cattle rustling syndicates
LIVESTOCK farmers in Matabeleland South have raised concerns over the failure by police top brass to arrest and discipline officers accused of running organised cattle rustling syndicates in the provi...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
4 cops in foiled gold heist
TWO police officers, who were part of a four-member gang of felonious cops, have been arrested after a foiled gold heist in Gwanda where they shot and seriously injured a miner.The victim, Vum...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Nail corrupt police'
AUTHORITIES have stepped up their efforts against graft within the police force, with Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe urging citizens to use technology to help nail rogue cops.This comes...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
143 arrested as cops smash drug dealers' bases
A POLICE crackdown on drug peddlers and syndicates has so far netted 143 drug dealers with their bases being destroyed in raids that are being carried out in Harare and Chitungwiza. This comes...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate lashes out at rogue cop
A Bulawayo magistrate lashed out at a police officer who stabbed his friend with a kitchen knife on the cheek for drinking his hot stuff describing him as a "monster and rogue" cop who has dragged the...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rogue cops crackdown intensifies
POLICE have intensified efforts to weed out cops who damage public perception of the force through criminal activities and misconduct. In an interview yesterday, national police spokesperson A...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 23:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's soldiers used excessive force against protesters
Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase of 150 percent result...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | | by Human Rights Watch
Rogue cops run amok in Harare
Some rogue police officers went on the rampage in Harare at the weekend - firing tear gas indiscriminately at commuters omnibus ranks before savagely assaulting revellers at night clubs.In the...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rogue cops trial date set
THE trial of two Nyamandlovu traffic police officers, charged with abuse of duty as public officers after converting part of spot fines to personal use will get underway on April 11.Shelto...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
We have already won 2018 elections, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, while I was flying to and from some regional destinations where I had official commitments, I managed to read through the documents some of you pres...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by CZ
Bad apples soiling ZRP image
WE are worried about a growing trend of indiscipline within the Zimbabwe Republic Police and caution that unless this cancer is brought to an abrupt end, our police force is doomed. Our concern st...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:35hrs | 3 | by Staff writer
Top Zimbabwe cop fingered in poaching saga
A syndicate comprising police officers, Parks and Wildlife Management Authority rangers and Asians is behind the latest spate of elephant killings in Hwange National Park, it has emerged.One o...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 08:20hrs | | by Brian Chitemba and Tinashe Farawo
Peter Tatchell was a 'journalist' too, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I know many of you were not at all taken aback with what happened in Abuja at the weekend when I was in Nigeria for the inauguration of that country...Published: 11 Jun 2015 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by CZ
Rogue cop up for armed robbery
An alleged rogue police officer from Harare, Edmore Banda is before the courts facing several charges of theft of motor vehicles.Banda (27) was arrested for allegedly committing a spate of arm...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 15:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Rogue cop speeds through roadblock drums
A ROGUE police officer based in Gokwe landed himself in trouble after he was arrested for refusing to stop at a roadblock resulting in him hitting drums and sending traffic cops scurrying for cove...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus roadblock cops granted bail
THREE police officers from Tsholotsho who allegedly mounted a series of illegal roadblocks after stealing a traffic offences ticket book were yesterday each granted $200 bail. Assistant I...Published: 28 Aug 2014 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops hunt senior cop who is on the run following arrest of rouge accomplices
Assistant Inspector Arthur Mbwembwe, who is suspected to have a led a trio of renegade cops to set up an illegal roadblock in Tsholotsho is on the run from the law, following the arrest of his par...Published: 28 Aug 2014 at 00:19hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Fake roadblock - 3 cops held, senior cop on the run
A SENIOR police officer is on the run while three of his colleagues have been arrested for mounting a series of illegal roadblocks after stealing a traffic offences ticket book, a court heard....Published: 26 Aug 2014 at 18:00hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Drama as rogue cops nabbed after trying to push suspect out of speeding car
Two Bulawayo cops who teamed up with wanted criminals and tried to push a suspect from whom they had extorted R30 and six small fish from a speeding, car have been arrested.Constables Wind...Published: 04 Aug 2014 at 20:58hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
'Rogue cops' demand bribes from motorists
FOUR bogus policemen have been arrested for allegedly masquerading as uniformed traffic police and demanding bribes from motorists they stopped at several Bulawayo intersections.Farai Mukute,...Published: 14 Apr 2014 at 06:42hrs | 4 | by Thandeka Moyo
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