Lieutenant General Arno Lamoer is a former

Western Cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...

Provincial Police Commissioner for the

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. He was suspended in 2015 after being arrested on charges of corruption. He was given a six year sentence for corruption whilst he was Provincial Police Commissioner.

Early life

Prior to joining the police force Lamoer was a teacher for two years.

Police career

From 1980 to 1986 Lamoer started his career as a lecturer and police trainer at Bishop Lavis Training College. He was then promoted to station commander of Atlantis police station and in 1990 was transferred to

Manenberg Manenberg is a township of Cape Town, South Africa, that was created by the apartheid government for low-income Coloured families in the Cape Flats in 1966

police station as station commander until 1994. In 1996 he was appointed to address corruption in the

. Later in the same year he was promoted to Deputy Area Commissioner East metropole, Western Cape. In 1998 he was head of the Organised Crime and Public Safety directorates and then served as commander for special operations in the province. In 2006 he was made a divisional commander and in 2010 he was appointed as the Western Cape's Provincial Police Commissioner.

Corruption

A source within the Western Cape Crime Intelligence unit leaked information that revealed that Lamoer was warned by national police commissioner

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that he was being investigated for his associated with an alleged Cape Town drug-dealer and well-known businessperson. It was alleged that Lamoer's daughter had received R20,000 deposited directly into her account as a wedding gift to help pay-off a load by the owner of a Cape Town based tow-truck company who was also a close friend. It was alleged by a senior police source that the Crime Intelligence Unit was retaliating for an investigation Lamoer had launched looking into corruption within the unit. Lamoer was criticised by the Western Cape parliament's standing committee on community safety for his silence on the allegations and urged him to give a statement about the allegations. In 2018 Lamoer was given a six year prison sentence for corruption.

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