Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena has denied a story we've been carrying on our website that some members of the police force were harassing women wearing trousers and mini-skirts. We have managed to confirm that the story is true and have spoken to one of the victims in Bulawayo.

Priscilla Dube of Emakhandeni said this practice has been happening and she was herself told 'to go and dress up' when police officers in Emakhandeni saw her wearing jeans.

Dube said the same officers also ordered a boy walking in a street to tuck in his shirt, and told another lady who was in a mini-skirt to go back home and dress properly.

On Monday our correspondent Themba Nkosi had told us that police were harassing and beating up women wearing trousers and mini-skirts in Plumtree during operation murambatsvina.

This was however strongly denied by Assistant Commissioner Bvudzijena who is well known for refusing to take any questions from SW Radio Africa.

The self-styled 'comical Ali' of the ZRP instead issued a stunning rebuttal by proclaiming 'The Zimbabwe Republic Police does not have a culture of assaulting people. Instead, the organisation has nurtured a respect for human rights.

This is contrary to what Priscilla Dube told us when the so-called officers from an 'organisation that has nurtured a respect for human rights' abused her human rights for wearing trousers!