FRIDAY, 5.00PM
SEVEN senior Johannesburg detectives, including the notorious former head of the Brixton Murder and Robbery squad, Superintendent Charlie Landman, on Friday quit the police to join private security firm Khulani Springbok Patrols.
A KSP spokesman and police spokesman Inspector Mark Reynolds confirmed that Landman, three captains from his former unit and three inspectors from the criminal record centre at John Vorster Square had resigned to join the company.
Landman has been the focus of numerous allegations of involvement in torture of suspects and corrupt dealings with crime syndicates, but nothing has stuck. He was recently acquitted on corruption charges involving allegations that he had accepted money to have charges dropped against an accused.
Springbok patrols was exposed by the Mail & Guardian in the early 1990s for alleged involvement in “third force” activities.