Police court cases on the rise: victims use Constitutional rights
Published: 2016 February 15 05:18:38 (4645 Views)
Three Mutare police officers have had their salaries garnished to pay a total of $900 damages after they broke into a cellphone technician’s house at night and beat him up for allegedly stealing some property.
The payments from the officers will compensate the victim.
Constables Christopher Kanyemba, Chenjerai Muzuva and Talent Mutede of Chikanga Police Station, broke the bedroom door and pounced on Mr Prince Mbofana who was lying naked with his wife before force-marching him to the police station.
The garnishee orders were issued barely a fortnight after another constable at Zimunya Police Station in Mutare brutally assaulted and unlawfully arrested a villager.
He was sued and ordered to pay the victim $1 007 as compensation.
The flood of lawsuits against police officers in their personal capacities stems from Section 50(9) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, which makes all abusive and overzealous police officers liable for their own illegal actions.
In terms of the Constitution, those public officers who unlawfully detain or arrest people are liable to personal lawsuits.
Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi and Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri have also been sued in their official capacities.
- Herald
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