The ZIMBABWE Republic Police has retrenched 43000 thousand of its special constabulary department employees. The operatives have also been denied employment by the ruling Zanu-PF party, which seconded them to the force in the early 1980s. Commissariat director Raymond Takavarasha said the lay-offs of the reserve police officers are consistent with overall cutback in civil servants. Deputy commissioner of the force, George Kundeya, added that the police department can no longer cope with paying allowances to the reservists.
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