FLUSH THEM OUT

Few eyebrows would have been raised at the claims by Democratic
Alliance leader Helen Zille that the police are involved in
corruption and drug shipping in many parts of the country.

This is because of past incidents in which bad apples in the police
force and drug syndicates had exposed such collusion. Also
corroborating Zille's claims is the fact that drug syndicates still
operate with impunity in major centres of the country.

Addressing residents of Phoenix in Durban at the weekend, Zille also
claimed that drug lords paid police officers tax for protection.

Phoenix is reputed to be awash with drugs.

Without detracting from Zille's vigorous anti-drug campaign, we would
like to urge the DA leader to not only raise the alarm about corrupt
policemen but go further by providing their names to the SAPS so it
can weed them out of its ranks.

This would be a more useful contribution to the campaign.