CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP):

South Africa's national police chief went to court, yesterday, to try to stop prosecutors from pursuing a corruption case against him.

The tension between prosecutors and police risks undermining the government's crackdown on crime in a country where there are more than 50 murders a day.

Independent radio station 702 said it had obtained court documents in which police chief, Jackie Selebi, asked that police be barred from taking any steps to arrest him, or at least not until the court rules on his requests. If he was going to be arrested, he asked that the prosecutor's investigators first provide him with the details of the allegations against him.