Complainant slams Honeydew Police for poor conduct
Local media personality shares his saddening experience when reporting an alleged hijacking ordeal at Honeydew Police Station.
Honeydew Police spokesperson Captain Balan Muthan has urged members of the community to refrain from running to social media and slamming the police, instead of lodging a formal complaint with the station commander or reporting to other officers for further intervention.
This follows a complaint from a local media personality, Kevin McLennan, who took to Facebook to lambast Honeydew Police Station for ‘mishandling’ his recent alleged hijacking incident.
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McLennan shared his outrage about his hijacking ordeal and awful encounter at the station on a community group. “Last week Thursday I was hijacked at corner Republic and William Nicol. It was terrible, but I was thankful they didn’t actually take my car or me. They did get away with my two phones, cash and jacket and a little bit of my peace of mind.”
“I went to Honeydew Police Station and that’s where my problem really began. The man (whoever it was, I didn’t get a name) was so rude to me that I walked out mid-sentence. He told me that I was not hijacked and that if I was I would have been taken away.
He told me that if I was hijacked in the future that I would know all about it and I shouldn’t play games,” he explained his saddening experience in Honeydew Police Station.
After being ‘rejected’ at the Honeydew Police Station, Mclennan took the matter to another nearby police station where he received the assistance he required. “I’d like to say a massive thank you to Douglasdale Police Station for helping very kindly and efficiently and a bigger thank you to Randburg for sitting with me to get my case filed,” he said, lashing out at Honeydew again by saying, “I won’t ever trust my community police again.”
The Northsider has been unsuccessful in obtaining further information from the complainant.
However, Muthan advised, “He [Mclennan] needs to put in a formal complaint to the station commander and the matter will be investigated”.
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