JMPD's Wayne Minnaar retires with pride

Wayne Minnaar, Superintendent of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD), has been hailed as an ethical leader who gave 41 years of "honourable service" to the department. 

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His departure was difficult for him to accept. 

Minnaar said he had always stood by his word to serve and protect the elderly and children and that he had done so with honour, valour, and integrity.

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"I have worn my uniform and badge with pride for 41 years and as I retire, I can look back on the service I gave to the citizens of Johannesburg with pride," Minnaar said.

According to Johannesburg Mayor, Dr Mpho Phalatse: "Minnaar has been an exceptional civil servant who has remained true to himself without compromising his own ideals, principles and values."

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"He has so much more to teach our youth and the younger trainees. He still needs to educate residents in the City of Johannesburg about what is good and wrong. We can't afford to lose people of this calibre, especially when they want to work, but the system is working against them," Phalatse added.

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