Company donates cash, computers to CID

Holdings to fight crime.
The company also pledged US$100 000 as prize money for detectives honoured for excellence this year.
The department also received annual Internet subscription, cartridges, bond paper, printers and US$25 000 for an income generating project.

On a quarterly basis, the CID receives 1 000 litres of fuel from Twalumba Petroleum.
Twalumba Holdings group chief executive chairman, Dr Nkululeko Sibanda, said the police in general and the CID in particular, needed to be ahead of the criminals if the war against crime was to be won.
“One way that the CID can enhance its operations is through clearer and quicker transmission of reports,” he said.

Dr Sibanda said he would want to see the CID engaging in income generating projects just as the uniformed officers were doing.
“Our thinking is that too often detectives are injured or killed in the line of duty and CID as an institution fails to assist promptly.
“We hope the projects you will embark upon will enable you to assist in such cases,” he said.

On Thursday, Twalumba Holdings sponsored the CID awards and spent US$25 000 in prize money.
Dr Sibanda said detectives needed resources to do their work well.

“The vehicles are there, so as Twalumba we are chipping in with fuel to increase mobility of winning teams and we hope this fuel will greatly increase their zeal to win again.
“We understand that stations operating in isolation will not achieve much. All CID stations need the well considered strategic input of PGHQ,” he said.
The Officer Commanding CID Senior Assistant Commissioner Simon Nyathi, said although a challenge of resources continued to be an eyesore in human and material terms, the interventions by the corporate world together with their human resources department late last year had left them on a “better footing”.

He said Twalumba Holdings had expressed their satisfaction in the manner detectives had dealt with serious and complex cases.

“In our appreciation of the aforesaid support as well as our implementation of the transformation process that the ZRP has gone through, for all of us, the general populace included, to experience a paradigm shift from the colonial era policing approach, we have taken this opportunity to announce our intention to launch our CID press and public relations strategy in the near future,” Snr Asst Comm Nyathi said.

He said this was aimed at dealing with the stigma that emanated from a sadly confusing belief in certain quarters of the public that the CID comprised menacing men and women in “dark suits and dark glasses”.
“That assertion and belief is obviously wrong, malicious and exhibits the lack of knowledge of the professionalism of detectives,” he said.

Snr Asst Comm Nyathi said a well informed public was less expensive to police.