The KwaDukuza municipality has cleared its peace officers of manhandling a four-year-old who was, along with 10 others, found in breach of lockdown regulations.
KwaDukuza spokesperson Sipho Mkhize said their officers received a complaint that the Disaster Management Act regulations were being breached at the Shaka's Rock tidal beach.
Mkhize said the officers informed 11 people found in breach of the regulations - he referring to them as"transgressors" - before placing them under arrest. Mkhize said the other three children were being processed to be handed over to their homes safely when the drama captured on video took place. "It is the officer's responsibility, as in this case, to secure and safely keep a child in cases of arrests by taking the child to a safe place, which was the case with these officers - not manhandling the child," said Mkhize.
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