Following the Commissioner General of Police’s recent swipe on cops who are involved in illegal acts hiding behind their jobs, officers in Lupane Matabeleland North have reportedly gone into a rush to acquire fake driving licences.
Information made available to ZimEye.com by impeccable sources within the police station at the Matabeleland North Provincial capital claim that at least eleven officers who for a longtime have been driving personal and police vehicles without driving licences, sourced the fraudulent disks from a man who is a “ZRP agent” at the Vehicle Inspection Department in the Hwange.
The sources claim that the Officer In Charge at Lupane Police is aware of the allegations as they were reported to him via a tip-off from members of the public. According to the sources, the senior official did not do anything about the information despite the names of the concerned officers having been given to him.
One of the officers involved in the scam is reported to have been involved in an accident recently and failed to produce a driver’s licence as he feared producing it. The case is still at court.
A comment could not be immediately obtained from the Officer In Charge at Lupane who was said to be out of office on police business in Masvingo.