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AFTER being arrested last year for allegedly dealing in tik, a Hout Bay police officer who is a Grassy Park resident has once again been arrested for possession of drugs.

In December last year, 38-year-old Reginald Daniels was arrested together with three other people for allegedly dealing in tik after police raided his Grassy Park home on 2 December.

All the suspects are currently out on bail and will appear in the Wynberg Magistrate?s Court on 19 April.

But last week, Saturday, 10 February, police arrested Daniels' brother-in-law, George van Wyk, for being in possession of tik after leaving the Daniels' residence.

Daniels' home was searched but no drugs were found on the premi?ses that day.

Late on Tuesday, 13 February, the police found what they believed to be heroin in corrugated shacks in the vicinity of Daniels' home.

"We took statements on the premises from the witnesses and we arrested Daniels," Senior Superintendent Christopher Jones, station commissioner of the Grassy Park Police, said.

According to Jones, 40 units of a substance believed to be heroin were found. The estimated street value is about R2 100.

Because Daniels was on bail at the time of his arrest for a drug related crime, the question arises as to whether or not he violated his bail conditions.

However, Jones says that he is unable to answer that question because at the time of publication, the substance was being screened by the forensics unit to ascertain whether or not the substances found were indeed heroin.

Daniels appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, 14 February and was released on bail.

"We opposed bail, but we were not successful," says Jones.

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