News By Category Police

Nampol can’t explain N$11m Peugeot snub

1 week ago - 13 October 2021 | Police

OGONE TLHAGE WINDHOEKNamibian police (Nampol) chief Sebastian Ndeitunga says the force was not aware of a Cabinet directive requiring public institutions to procure their...

Children abused as govt turns blind eye

1 month - 24 September 2021 | Police

JEMIMA BEUKES WINDHOEKStaff at a centre for orphans and vulnerable people in Katutura say they hopelessly witness rape victims as young as four...

Slow response to firearm amnesty in Erongo

1 month - 22 September 2021 | Police

NAMPASWAKOPMUNDThe police in the Erongo Region are worried about the slow response by community members to hand over illegal firearms and ammunition during the amnesty period.The regional head of community policing, Inspector Ileni Shapumba, said:...

Police warn about self-proclaimed pastors

1 month - 17 September 2021 | Police

Kenya Kambowe RUNDU Kavango West police on Wednesday attended to a fight which broke out at Suni village when a self-proclaimed pastor revealed...

Police tied up in red tape

1 month - 15 September 2021 | Police

KENYA KAMBOWE NKURENKURU The police are looking at ways of procuring goods and services more quickly, as the current procurement process hinders effective policing. Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga says bureaucratic red tape is undermining police operations, and the line...

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Inmates squeezed into overcrowded cells

1 month - 15 September 2021 | Police

JANA-MARI SMITWINDHOEKThe Ombudsman’s 2020 annual report shows that many Namibian police stations are overcrowded and in bad shape.Released on Monday, the report shows the office...

Police top abuse list

1 month - 13 September 2021 | Police

JEMIMA BEUKES WINDHOEKThe Namibian police remain the biggest human rights offenders countrywide, with...

Police need N$30m to finalise pending DNA cases

1 month - 07 September 2021 | Police

NAMPA WINDHOEKThe Namibian Police Forensic Science Institute needs about N$30 million to complete a backlog of 4 375 pending DNA cases...

Amnesty to hand in illegal firearms

1 month - 03 September 2021 | Police

ELLANIE SMIT WINDHOEK People who possess illegal firearms have been offered a one-month amnesty to surrender all unlicenced arms and ammunition...

‘Aging’ Ndeitunga didn’t mean his City threats literally

2 months ago - 13 August 2021 | Police

JEMIMA BEUKESWINDHOEKPolice inspector-general Sebastian Ndeitunga has clarified his out-of-character agitated remarks during a land grab incident this week when he threatened to take over the...

China worries about terrorist attacks

2 months ago - 02 August 2021 | Police

JEMIMA BEUKES WINDHOEKThe Namibian police and other units in the country’s security cluster are on high alert after a bomb attack in...

Kavango West to clamp down overcrowded churches

2 months ago - 02 August 2021 | Police

Kenya Kambowe RUNDUKavango West police head, Commissioner Josephat Abel, says the police will no longer be lenient...

Ask for mercy from court,...

3 months ago - 13 July 2021 | Police

Kenya Kambowe RUNDUDeputy commissioner Vilho Kalwenya of the Kavango East police says they will no longer be lenient to those defying the Covid-19 regulations.He stressed...

We will arrest you –...

3 months ago - 07 July 2021 | Police

Kenya Kambowe RUNDUPolice chief, Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga, says despite the overcrowding in police holding cells across the country, the police will be relentless in arresting...

Ndeitunga petitioned over ‘mysterious’ Kapako...

3 months ago - 06 July 2021 | Police

Kenya Kambowe MukweLast Thursday, the youth of Mukwe and surrounding villages in the Kavango East Region petitioned...

Kanime ready to hang up...

4 months ago - 11 June 2021 | Police

JEMIMA BEUKES WINDHOEKBeleaguered City Police chief Abraham Kanime says he is still in his job but he is not desperate and is...

Inmate mistakenly released

5 months ago - 07 May 2021 | Police

JEMIMA BEUKES WINDHOEKMariental prison officials are set to face disciplinary measures after Bernadus Khariseb was mistakenly released from the correctional facility.The...

Khorixas incident embarrasses police

6 months ago - 26 April 2021 | Police

JEMIMA BEUKESWINDHOEKThe Namibian police are embarrassed after a police officer at Khorixas violently assaulted and kicked members of the public in the town’s holding cells...