An Eastern Cape policeman might be in hot water after an afternoon on the beach in full uniform in the company of a ”skimpily dressed colleague”, Herald Online reported on Friday.
Residents in the coastal village of Blue Horizon Bay near Port Elizabeth were fuming over the incident on Sunday afternoon.
Brian Bezuidenhout said he saw the policeman arrive in a marked police vehicle of the area crime combating unit in Struandale in Port Elizabeth.
He arrived with a ”skimpily dressed female” and the pair spent about two-and-half hours on the beach.
”They were frolicking on the dunes. They walked along the beach and then as they walked towards the dunes they held hands and cuddled,” said Bezuidenhout.
”[They] then disappeared behind the dunes. After about an hour they reappeared.”
A Blue Horizon Bay Conservancy volunteer who was on duty at the time, Irene Khartoum, said she had seen the officer in the car park.
She complained that he had not taken any action against illegal quad-bikers in the parking area, but he ignored her and drove away.
Bezuidenhout said fishermen on the beach also saw the officer. The policeman had admitted to being in Blue Horizon Bay on Sunday afternoon ”on official general duty with a constable colleague”, the Herald reported.
He did not want to provide the name of the female constable in a small black outfit, but said he was an official swimming instructor in the police force and took her for swimming instruction.
Bezuidenhout said he had not seen the two enter the water. – Sapa