Senior cop Sibiya accuses SAPS of targeting him following home raid

SUSPENDED Deputy National Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya has expressed feelings of betrayal and persecution following a police raid on his home yesterday.

- THABO MAKWAKWA

A MEDIA contingent outside the home of Shadrack Sibiya, near Centurion yesterday during a raid by the police.

(OUPA MOKOENA Independent Newspapers)

Police officers spent several hours inside his residence however no arrests were made.

Sibiya described the operation as an unjustified siege and accused the SAPS of betraying him.

"At least my police colleagues must think of my kids," Sibiya said, emphasising the personal toll of the ongoing investigation.

Several laptops were seized during the raid, but Sibiya insisted nothing incriminating was on the devices.

"They took three or four laptops, and there's nothing there. Every day we are under siege and helicopters fly around," he said.

Sibiya acknowledged the strained relations within the police hierarchy.