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BRACKENFELL DETECTIVES: NEW COMMANDER
‘Fraud case load must be reduced’
Dramaklub skitter met Aladdin
DESIRÉE RORKE
heavy case load,” she says adding that she is currently ensuring that these cases get more attention. lack of resources and a backlog in According to Smith, who lives in Kraaifraud investigations in particular is fontein, property crime remains the most only two of the many challenges that prevalent in Brackenfell, but with three tiface Lt Col Beverley Smith, new head of de- mes more cases than at her previous station, tectives at Brackenfell she has her work cut out for her. police station. She transferred from Table A policewoman with Bay Harbour police station, 29 years experience to where she served as branch bag, Smith took over the commander since 2015. reins as detective After so many years in the pobranch commander on 1 lice, Smith says the job remains November. rewarding. As is the case everywShe started her career in the here else in the Western police at Bellville police station Cape, a critical shortage in 1991 as a uniform member. In of detectives has pla1997 she became a detective and gued Brackenfell police in 2010 was “thrown in on the station over recent yedeep end” as branch commanars. der in Philadelphia. “The shortage of man“It was challenging to say the power in the police is a Lt Col Beverley Smith, new least, but I wouldn’t have channational mandate and detective branch commander at ged it for the world,” she says. outside of our control Brackenfell police Musing over her three-decaon station level,” Smith station. FOTO: DESIRÉE RORKE de career in the police, the 2008 said in an interview murder case in which three with TygerBurger last week. high school learners beat a homeless person Nonetheless, steely in her determination to death, stays in her mind. she has resolved to work down the heavy ca“This was probably the most sensational se load at the branch. case I ever investigated as far as media attenWorking at nearly half its full capacity, de- tion goes. It was also very technical and at tectives have anything between 100 and 200 times it felt we would never get a conviction. dockets on their table on any given day. This It was exhausting.” is way fraud cases especially take longer to After nearly five years in court, along with investigate. prosecutors going up against a team of advo“More complex investigations are requi- cates, the state managed to convict and senred in such cases, placing the detective un- tence the delinquents to five years imprisonder severe pressure considering his already ment.
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Die dramaklub van Laerskool Brackenfell het verlede Maandag die jaar op ’n hoogtepunt afgesluit met die opvoering van die kleurvolle en skouspelagtige blyspel Aladdin in die skoolsaa. Die stuk is geskryf en verwerk deur die talentvolle Nicolene van der Walt, die regisseur en dramahoof van die skool. Op die foto is van die hoofkarakters, Micke van der Westhuizen (Genie), Marno van der Merwe (Aladdin) en Tiaan Botha (Abu) wat al drie uitgeblink het met die vertolking.
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