A woman has been arrested for allegedly damaging a police vehicle during a stone-throwing incident in Mitchells Plain.
|||Cape Town - A woman has been arrested for allegedly damaging a police vehicle in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, police said on Thursday.
The patrol vehicle was damaged by stone-throwing residents on Wednesday, said Captain Frederick van Wyk.
This happened without provocation, he said. None of the officers in the vehicle was hurt.
“This act in itself leaves police extremely disappointed in the behaviour of some of our community members,” Van Wyk said.
“We wish to call on the community to assist and allow the police to execute their duties.”
A 20-year-old woman had been arrested for public violence, assault and malicious damage to property and would appear in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate's Court.
Sapa