Oshana Police Commander Sakaria Lungameni has appealed to citizens to allow law enforcement officials to carry out their duties without harassment.

Commissioner Lungameni's comments come after a video circulated on social media where an officer was seen throwing a young man in handcuffs into a police van.

It was at Gwashamba mall in Ondangwa where police were attending to a call of children who were selling goods on the street, and according to Commissioner Lungameni, 30-year-old Teofelus Nimengombe obstructed the officers while they were busy carrying out their duties.

An offender at the Karibib Police Station holding cells who alleges police brutality has opened a case of Grievous Bodily Harm.

Tangeni Kandjimi filed the case against two constables stationed at Karibib.

He is alleging that the police officers unlawfully and intentionally assaulted him by kicking, slapping, and hitting his face, whereby he sustained an open wound on his right eye.

He was also showered with a pressure hose pipe, he alleges.

In a handwritten letter to his mother, he also claims to have broken toes.

A trial awaiting offender at the Karibib holding cells has accused members of the Namibian Police Force of police brutality.

In several WhatsApp messages shared with the media, the offender has made serious allegations of physical abuse and further accused the staff at the Karibib police station of withholding food.

The offender further laments that the police officers have also not been giving him his HIV medication.