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Johannesburg – National police commissionerRiah Phiyega on Tuesday lamented the slaying of five police officers since she took office less than a month ago.

“One slain police officer is one too many,” Phiyega said at a ceremony in Johannesburg to mark five years since the start of Crime Line, the anonymous tip-off service.

She said she spent time over the past weekend with a family in the Eastern Cape whose policeman son had been killed. He was shot while trying to make an arrest.

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