1.
The policemen put me in the back seat of their car – an unmarked police car, thank goodness – and we drive off
2.
We sit there in silence for some minutes after the policemen have left the room
3.
Marketeers would study here some day to upgrade their enticements
4.
This relatively civilized introduction to importuning went on for a few minutes more until interrupted by the approach of two railway policemen
5.
The older gent's self preservation skills flickered into life as soon as he saw the approaching policemen, and by the time the boys in blue reached the two abandoned children the older gentleman was nowhere to be seen
6.
"What have we got here, then", said one of the policemen as his colleague made enquiries over his two-way radio
7.
All of the policemen on crowd duty turned and fled the carnage, but the ordinary people in the crowd started to cheer and whoop with delight, carrying the soldier around on their shoulders and yelling and shouting that they'd never liked bankers at all
8.
Tiffany looked over her shoulder and, to her horror, she saw two uniformed policemen rocking backwards and forwards on the heels of their big black boots
9.
Her violet eyes were the same as Ogatu females; and they held that same quality of enticement
10.
“Maybe they believe their own propaganda, that the Kassikan is the great Satan that has corrupted America, then Europe and now Brasil with their enticements
11.
life as soon as he saw the approaching policemen, and by the time
12.
"What have we got here, then", said one of the policemen as his
13.
All of the policemen on crowd duty turned and fled the carnage,
14.
The two policemen helped Andy sit down
15.
His best endeavours to keep various little bits of information from the probing policemen had failed miserably, they seemed to know when he was covering something over and the sheer effort required to keep a guard on his words was beginning to tell on him
16.
The other girls had been mostly orphans or kids of servicemen and that’s where I learned how to behave in ‘polite’ society
17.
Beth's enticement was the shiny new kitchen, as the girls had expected, mainly because it offered an oven large enough to bake a sheet cake
18.
`This is the end of everything' (he said), `at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular and handsome Toad, the rich and hospitable Toad, the Toad so free and careless and cool! How can I hope to be ever set at large again' (he said), `who have been put into prison so justly for stealing so handsome a motor-car in such an outrageous manner, and for such imaginative cheek, put upon such a number of fat, red-faced policemen!' (Here his sobs choked him
19.
that almost ten policemen chased them with so many guns and
20.
But that didn't fit with the way these nervous policemen
21.
I was now ready and two Military Policemen pushed me in a wheel chair to a waiting ambulance outside that would take me to Division HQ which was a t Querrieu which was also the HQ for the 4th Army
22.
The two Military Policemen wheeled me into the room and I could see a Colonel and two Majors sat behind a table looking at us as we came in I noticed Major Vine off to one side and Captain Berryman was leafing through some papers
23.
He told the Military Policemen to take me out but I wasn’t really listening anymore as the shoved me towards the door in my wheelchair I noticed the Lieutenants face and it was both distraught and mortified
24.
And so, for the first time ever, TSA employees are now screening our servicemen returning via commercial air from overseas duty, often with their fatigues still muddy and filled with gunshot residue
25.
It took very little time to become increasingly apparent that Hillary Clinton"s constituents included neither the firemen nor policemen killed in trying to rescue survivors of those attacks, and definitely not their surviving families
26.
The public would think that we were trained policemen and ask us for assistance
27.
It was good training for policemen to think outside the box and it showed much to the pride of the Sergeants
28.
Is it not remarkable these days that all Army conscript veterans claim to have served in only two (elite of course) Units during the war? The Paratroopers and 32 Battalion! And all Policemen were ex-Koevoet members no doubt
29.
Talking of Policemen carrying bayonets or knifes; I only know of only one instance on the border where a Policeman was reduced to a knife fight, as we all, regardless of rank, carried side-arms
30.
There was a rumour, probably true, that policemen cut off the ears of dead terrorists to keep as trophies, but I had never witnessed it first-hand
31.
Dockets did not get lost, and many policemen were sent to jail or hanged when found guilty of such behaviour
32.
There was a standing joke that the position of head librarian in prison was reserved for former policemen, and quite a few times I came close to applying for that position just by doing my job
33.
What was not a joke was the genuine belief that if you had to shoot, then shoot to kill, because dead men tell no lies! All experienced mean street policemen know this, but it was not official policy nor was it lawful for that matter
34.
This is the problem with police killings, for policemen are wise and know how to get away with things
35.
I believe many policemen are now trained to aim for the head to avoid the bullet proof vest some criminals wear
36.
On the border tracers were used as target indicators to mark where other policemen should aim
37.
The statistics needed to show that all of the policemen were well trained and met high standards
38.
Unfortunately, the Police Stations did not enforce these same weight policies vigorously enough so some policemen became really overweight—a huge embarrassment to themselves and the SAP
39.
" (They were the only policemen who parachute jumped static and free fall, including HALO and HAHO, but then that was only expected, them being mad to begin with
40.
You may not believe me, but many policemen reading here will agree that the opposing belligerents always band together to attack you when you arrive to make peace
41.
Short of shooting him, I can imagine that it would have taken more than ten policemen to arrest him
42.
The Flying Squads were always at the forefront of action, unlike the typical station policemen, some of whom were gate guards and happy with their lot
43.
Despite my opinions many policemen carried the HMC on the border during the late 1960s when it was issued as a section commander weapon
44.
The problem these days is that the extra ballistic plates are placed in a pocket which is sealed with Velcro only, so the policemen are able to remove them because they can be heavy and hot or so I am told
45.
I can tell you that many policemen are murdered every year for their fire-arms so that was indeed valid up to a point
46.
I remember a wonderful punch-up at a sleazy hotel in Pretoria West where we’d had a running battle with locals who had barricaded themselves inside the building and refused to submit to arrest to the local station policemen despite being asked to do so
47.
We treated the local station policemen with much more respect than the Eastern ones, where wife abuse happened more often than shootings
48.
American relief efforts have resulted in the ignominious death of eighteen United States servicemen dispatched to oversee the distribution of food
49.
No one will be able to convince me that courts do not always have a higher test of responsibility for policemen than anyone else in the community
50.
Later on we needed the experienced policemen on the mean streets and civilians were appointed to answer the 10111 telephones but that was a mistake in my eyes
51.
The public needed to and indeed have the right to speak to trained policemen when complaining even if most members refused to speak English and referred all English speaking callers to me since they “should f know the SAP is now in its Afrikaans phase blah blah blah
52.
There was a tendency, much to our disgust, where the Station policemen would attempt to get a head-start on us by reporting the serious complaint a few minutes later than what they should have done to give their own lads a fair chance to get there first and claim the criminal
53.
that is unless you are a lonely woman with an eye for a man in uniform! I am convinced, and many policemen reading here will agree, that some complaints we attended to were just for our manly presence so to speak
54.
How will you feel when the current Minister of Law and Order says: "I don't mind if my black policemen kick whites to death whilst in SAPS custody
55.
The story (in a nutshell) is about inter-racial marriages between American servicemen and their Japanese girlfriends and the conventional (racial) barriers that stood in their way
56.
Silly deduction that was for policemen tend to shoot themselves in the head which is the safest way of ensuring you die without too much unpleasantness
57.
Then one of the local policemen said his girlfriend has a farm or rather her dad has one and perhaps we could release the crocodile there if only it would come with us
58.
But then again, it twisted and hissed and scratched us with its feet and the tail made two of the policemen sea-sick from swinging around or so they said
59.
And our arrested reptile? Well he walked into the charge office to lay a complaint against his treatment and apparently the charge office emptied within seconds with policemen standing on desks and the counter shouting for someone to shoot the beast and at the same time look around for a camera for their lieutenant isn’t going to believe this tomorrow
60.
Try as they might the local policemen could not catch them and after countless fruitless attempts finally asked for our assistance as their lieutenant was a newly married man and his wife complained bitterly about the biker's lack of morals
61.
I did however expect the crew to protect her for they were experienced street policemen
62.
I will never blame the policemen who pulled the trigger
63.
Those policemen were only the instruments of their abuse but we spoke about it before in Book 1
64.
Many years later I heard a rumour that we executed Van Rooyen because senior policemen were involved in his paedophile ring
65.
I have no idea if this is true but many policemen believe it to be true
66.
Having had the same basic training, the different skills of the policemen were an asset
67.
And I can tell you that most; if not all white policemen had at least a basic understanding of the local traditions
68.
Our level of fitness was a serious concern and I am sure if one of them read here he will have a few choice words to add about unfit policemen arriving for training
69.
Most were experienced street policemen who could be respected
70.
In all honesty, I don’t know exactly what happened at the Sharpeville Police Station in 1960, but I blame the Nationalists for placing those policemen in that situation where they opened fire
71.
Therefore they never operated alone as the white policemen could not be affected by witchcraft
72.
It was also filled with diesel to burn the policemen out
73.
All this shows you how practical policemen are, and how the Casspirs were adapted for their new duties
74.
He cannot really comprehend why the white policemen arrested him, and the courts take this in account with sentencing
75.
Like the Flying Squads they responded first and were experienced street policemen before applying
76.
I cannot say that other units did not back down as we once had a serious fatherly talk with twelve members of the Special Guard Unit who refused to get out of their vehicle, and assist a police woman when she was attacked by three men in their presence! Their reason to let a police woman be beaten up beside their obvious cowardliness? They cannot make arrests and appear in court as witnesses, for who will then protect the Nationalists? Well, you know there's still 900 other plastic policemen in your unit who might be able to protect them! I wonder how many rest days we spend in court answering stupid questions from lawyers
77.
Plastic policemen deserved our contempt by making such statements
78.
I wish everything which is bad to those gate guards calling themselves policemen when we were not around! We took their names and spread it via ROMEO as cowards for everyone to hear
79.
unlike the national servicemen (conscripts) we could not even say we were drafted for we were volunteers
80.
We were branded (still are) as "Apartheid Policemen" and not in a complimentary way either
81.
For the first time white policemen were fighting their own and understood every insult shouted at them
82.
A shoot-out occurred between them and the Bophuthatswana Police (mostly black policemen), who then also executed three right wingers in cold blood as they lay wounded on the ground
83.
Obviously, the black policemen won the fire-fight which was even worse news for the far right wing who sincerely believed that would never happen
84.
At one stage there were close to 2000 South African policemen cum light infantry in Rhodesia
85.
And what do you think the child is going to say if rescued? That he went willingly so that Mr Policemen can arrest him? Funny enough the same kidnapped youngsters voted for the same kidnappers afterwards
86.
The bemused paratroopers were sworn in as policemen for the duration of the contact and mounted a classic helicopter assault as it was before the Rhodesians discovered fireforces
87.
It directly led to the deployment of policemen in Rhodesia to learn the skills of COIN which our nationalist generals lost somehow for the police always had a military function and in fact fought in the Second World War as an infantry brigade
88.
The officers and car commanders were mostly white and experienced policemen before they joined the unit
89.
Unlike the COIN operations in Rhodesia nothing prevented the policemen from becoming a permanent member of the unit which is important for it created a wealth of experience
90.
Besides that they all carried the standard M9 side arm being policemen first and soldiers second
91.
At the time though, they were so impressed that they created a copy called 101 Battalion but it was never as successful as the policemen
92.
All the black policemen and many of the white ones were expert trackers and could follow the spoor on the run or in many cases from the moving vehicles
93.
Many terrorists became well-known to the policemen by their tracks only and much respected for escaping
94.
In regard to the identification of dead terrorists allow me to quote to your from my book Mean Streets - Life in the Apartheid Police: "There was a rumour, probably true, that Policemen cut the ears off dead terrorists to keep as trophies but I have never seen that myself
95.
Certainly a couple of policemen were hung for murder but those incidents took place after hours so to speak
96.
Being policemen this was picked up immediately and from my own experience I know that you get a feeling which is not natural and comes with years of hunting terrorists and criminals
97.
Without the vote and support of the senior black policemen he would never be allowed to command anything
98.
There is to this day much bitterness amongst the policemen who took the brunt of the fighting without air support for it was only much later that the Air Force became involved because of political excuses which I for one am not the least interested in hearing
99.
They also had the power of arrest and detention and considered themselves to be an elite group of highly dedicated policemen
100.
They would operate in civilian clothes with unmarked vehicles as quasi policemen / intelligence gatherers and assassins though of course they did not see it as assassination
