Dirk Coetzee: South African Navy.
I continued my career with the post office until 3 Ist of March 1970, when I asked for a transfer to the police.
On 1 April 1970 I joined the police as a student constable.
I was then...did my training in the police college from July to December 1970 and at the end of the year was elected the best student of the academy, the best student of the year.
I went back to the police station where I did all facets of police station work: all that you can get at on police station - accidents on the streets, complaints from the public, running the charge office, police dockets, petty investigations like assault etcetera and then I went for a police dog-handlers course.
I did the dog-handlers course and then transferred to flying squad: emergency police on the street if there's emergency calls.
I also did my counterintelligence...counter insurgency anti-terrorist training with a dog and I went to Rhodesia in January 1973 for three months on the border with my dog.
I came back and then transferred to Venda in the northern Transvaal as second in charge of the station commander there, where I became... wrote my officer's exams and then became an officer in the police force and I was drawn to the police academy to lecture in law to the students.
That was still June 1976, when I was transferred to Volksrus police station. it's in the south-eastern Transvaal near Natal border as station cominander.
There the Potem police brigadier those days who was chief of the security police, he sent a local security police chief, a secure... area security brigadier and the local Ermelo branch commander, g all in this present case, to come and draw me for the security branch.
I transferred then to Oshoek border post, where I was border post commander, mainly concerning passport control, but all border posts in South Africa fall under the security police of the region.
I then started operating for them, for the security police into Swaziland.
If they wanted keys of hotel rooms, if they wanted keys of ANC cadres or embassies that's hostile towards the South African government, supporting the ANC, coming from Mozambique to service their vehicles in Swaziland, I had duplicate keys made at the garage where they serviced their cars, where I had a contact, and we stole those vehicles.
I was also ordered to break into the ANC... to the United Nation High Commission refugee offices in Swaziland, which I did, and stole all the documents and whatever there was.
I was also involved then at... no later and with that I worked closely with the Ermelo security branch on operations, but still doing my brinkmanship, my apprenticeship as I call it in the security culture.
I then was transferred to Middelburg security, police branch as second in charge, in January 1980 and stayed there until August 1980.
I, at this stage, I think in April, took over the
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