A Port Elizabeth policeman been jailed for an effective four years for taking R150 from a motorist whom he and a colleague had stopped and tested for drunken driving.
Forty-three-year-old Sergeant Mwzandile Mventshana was sentenced in the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court on Tuesday to seven years in jail, three years of which were suspended.
His colleague, Constable Khayalethu Hlamvana, was also convicted on two counts of corruption.
According to the Hawks in the Eastern Cape the incident took place on the 30th of December in 2014, when they were conducting a routine check in Cape Road.
Hawks spokesperson, Captain Anelisa Feni, said Mventshana instructed the 25-year-old man to do a breathalyser test and informed him that he was over the limit.
"He requested the man to give him a R100 and buy him a soft drink however Hlamvana demanded him to pay R200. The 25-year-old man gave them R150 and reported the crime at the Mount Road police cluster the same day," she said.
"During the investigation a second complainant then reported that the two police members had also demanded a bride from him on 30 December 2014," she added.
Feni said the organised crime wing of the Hawks investigated the case and the two policemen were arrested in April last year.
Mventshana and Hlamvana were found guilty on two counts of corruption on 6 May, 2016.
Hlamvana will be sentenced at his next court appearance on the 30th of September.
