At least 28 junior police officers have taken their superiors to the High Court. The officers want the court to compel their superior officers to return the $45 to each officer which was allegedly unlawfully deducted at the Salary Service Bureau. Part of the court papers from one of the junior officers read,
I (Constable) and the rest of the applicants (27) were shocked when we got our payslips for May 2018 to note that the respondents had effected unlawful deductions on our salaries through SSB and through a garnishee order of $45 per each applicant.
We are not aware of the purported meals the respondent alleges that we took from ZRP Mbare A and B Mess. The deductions are clearly unlawful and daylight robbery if not corruption at the most alarming rate. The respondents have decided to take the law into their own hands and now looting from us.
The matter is yet to be set down for hearing
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