Three police officers expelled from PRM in Beira, two for murder

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Three police officers expelled from PRM in Beira, two for murder

12:07 CAT | 02 Feb 2018

File photo: Mozambican policeman

Three officers of the Republic of Mozambique Police in the city of Beira, Sofala province, have been expelled, two accused of murder and and the other of abandoning his job.

Arsenio Junior, asked for a leave to go to Maputo to deal with family matters while still an intern, but left before leave was approved and only returned to work four years later, Sofala provincial commander Alfredo Mussa told the press.

The second ex-police officer was removed from the ranks for having shot dead a citizen in Praia Nova, Beira. According to commander Mussa, the policeman, named António Benedito, left work and went to a ‘barraca’ where he got drunk and killed a man.

The third individual, Ali Saide, is currently serving a 24-year prison sentence for shooting dead a young man who was filming him consuming alcohol while in uniform and on duty in the Matacuane neighbourhood.

The victim, 32-year-old Cristóvão Marcos Inoque, was shot dead by Saide, who was in the company of another uniformed colleague, on a Sunday morning in February 2016.

police.mussa — *Sofala provincial commander Alfredo Mussa speaking to the press. Photo: O País*

There are several cases of murder by police agents still unresolved in the city of Beira.

On January 11, 2017, a 10-year-old child died of a bullet fired by a member of the corporation during an operation allegedly aimed at recovering stolen goods in the Munhava neighbourhood.

At the time, the shooter, a policeman assigned to the city’s 11th Police Station, and whose identity has not been revealed, took off, leaving the child and its family to their own devices.

On September 23, 2016, a 2nd corporal assigned to the 3rd squad shot dead three-year-old Chocolate Armando in the Matacuane neighbourhood, and instead of providing assistance, fled. He was arrested soon afterwards.

Source: A Verdade