News24 | JMPD officer killed by police while defending her 'reckless driver' son

A JMPD officer was shot and killed after allegedly quarrelling with police officers outside her home in Dobsonville.

A Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) officer was shot and killed during a shootout with members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) outside her Dobsonville home in Gauteng on Saturday evening.

According to Phaladi Shuping, the spokesperson for the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), the deceased was the mother of a suspected reckless driver, who was being chased by the police after failing to heed a call to stop.

"It is alleged that the police officers were on patrol when they saw a car that was driving recklessly, and they tried to stop it," said Shuping.

"The driver did not stop, and the police pursued, until it [the car] stopped at a certain house in Monaisa Street in Dobsonville."

The police officers approached the driver and asked why he had refused to stop.

The driver was told that he was under arrest for negligent and reckless driving.

The deceased then allegedly came out of her home and argued with the police officers.

"She allegedly told them that she was going to get her gun... went into the house, and started shooting at the police officers," he said.

Shuping said the woman was killed when the police returned fire.

IPID is probing the incident.