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@knightlancer
Cop is not a massively professional job in SA. V poorly paid and resourced. It's mainly a case of cruising round looking for people in nice cars speeding and touching them for some baksheesh.
I had a chauffeur in Jo'burg (totally I did) tell me he used to be a cop - they sat in the station house getting pissed, then went out and cruised for tickets. One night, he got called to a crash where a drunk driver had killed a mother and baby. They took the miscreant to the polis doctor for his blood test, and the doc said, 'I'll book him for you, but I know you're more drunk than he is'. He decided then he needed to get out, became a chauffeur and now earns more. /csb etc