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SLOW PROGRESS IN POLICE INVESTIGATIONS

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Sir,

Thank you for giving me space in your newspaper to express my views about the Royal Swaziland Police. Many cases have not been concluded under their investigations, why? Does it mean that our police department is not well equipped to investigate cases? What really is the problem?


When I watch crime investigations in other countries on television, it makes me wonder why our police in Swaziland are failing like this. Some of the cases I have watched show that there are no leads at all to these cases but the perpetrators are brought to book no matter how long. It could be over 20 years but the culprits are finally brought to book.
Here in Swaziland, we normally have clear leads to these cases of people disappearing and murdered but no one is arrested. Quite recently a groom who was about to marry his long time woman and pay lobola suddenly disappeared without any trace.


The family members have leads but no one has been arrested and brought to book.
The Mvelase case has also gone cold even though the killers were known. I think we need to send people outside the country to train them to investigate because the police investigations are failing in Swaziland. I read in the newspapers that a Limkokwing student disappeared and was found in a pool, dead. Hitherto, two of his close friends died mysteriously but no one has been arrested.


Then there is this case of a woman who was murdered in Mbabane while she was about to go on a trip outside the country but to today no one has been convicted. In all the above scenarios, there are clear leads but no convictions.
I wonder why we have such situations when we are known to be a Christian nation. The Prime Minister is in charge of the police and he is a known Christian too so things like this should worry him. As citizens we may not know who will be next so something needs to be done.

Very worried citizen

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