Ian Cameron: “North Korean” police tactics an a municipal “coup d’etat”…

In his latest interview with Chris Steyn, Ian Cameron, the Chair of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, slams former Police Minister Senzo Mchunu for setting the Hawks on a satirist. “..it’s just absolutely ridiculous, ludicrous to say the least - and that they would fly down a team from Johannesburg to come and waste time when there's actual real crime to fight. So proper North Korean-style operation…” Cameron calls 40 gunmen taking control of a municipal council in Northwest a “municipal coup d’etat". He says it begs the question whether we could expect “more on a provincial and even a national level” and says “this is exactly one of the reasons we should fight against the disarming of lawfully armed citizens”. Commenting on delays in the launch of the Ad Hoc committee that has to hear the Mkhwanazi allegations of Police Capture, Cameron says it is “extremely frustrating process…we continued to see the delays move forward. We just kept on hearing more excuses for things not happening. And now we're already more than a month in since when we could have started work in the beginning of August, and we still haven't finalised the programme”. Meanwhile, he laments the “bloodbath” on the Cape Flats. “…in the top 30 stations in the Western Cape, over the last month of August, we saw over 300 people being murdered. The impression is given that the police are doing what they can, but to be honest with you, they're not. They don't have the capacity even if they wanted to.”