A member of the Hawks was arrested on Friday afternoon for shoplifting. The woman, 41, who works at the Hawks offices as a clerk near the East London City Hall, allegedly tried to leave the Oxford Street Shoprite fast food counter without paying for the chicken and chips she had ordered.
East London police spokeswoman Warrant Officer Hazel Mqala said the woman was arrested by Fleet Street police after having been detained by store security guards.
She will appear in the East London Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of shoplifting, Mqala said. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za