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/ 8 December 2009
SA will not be run by criminals, said police National Commissioner Bheki Cele on Tuesday at the launch of a festive season crime-fighting campaign.
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/ 7 December 2009
The police force will make South Africa safe for the 2010 World Cup and beyond, national Police Commissioner Bheki Cele said on Monday.
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/ 2 December 2009
Security plans for the Fifa World Cup meet international standards and have been used as a benchmark by the UN, Bheki Cele said on Wednesday.
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/ 13 November 2009
South Africa’s police officers are insecure and uncertain after more than a decade of mixed messages from their superiors.
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/ 6 November 2009
Police chief Bheki Cele on Friday told police graduates they had the right to return fire if shot at, but should not become trigger-happy.
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/ 5 November 2009
Police must use deadly force when under attack from ”armed thugs”, Bheki Cele reiterated on Thursday after appointing two new provincial commissioners
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/ 24 October 2009
The police service will introduce stricter measures to safeguard its own firearms, a spokesperson said on Saturday.
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/ 26 September 2009
President Jacob Zuma will meet the country’s police
commissioners next week to discuss crime fighting initiatives, the presidency said on Friday.
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/ 22 September 2009
SA’s murder rate has declined slightly, the government said on Tuesday, though a surge in robberies pushed the overall crime rate slightly higher.
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/ 15 September 2009
South Africans will soon be making crime statements to legal professionals when they enter the country’s police stations, Bheki Cele said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 September 2009
Legislation empowering police to respond more forcefully to dangerous criminals is close to finalisation, the minister of police said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 September 2009
According to press reports, Cele was recently spotted at a Jimmy Choo store in Cape Town buying shoes for his fiancée, a Thembeka Ngcobo
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/ 8 September 2009
An application by Bheki Cele seeking to interdict three IFP leaders from making defamatory statements against him was rejected on Tuesday.
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/ 2 September 2009
Criminals do not target people because of their skin colour, police National Commissioner Bheki Cele said on Wednesday.
Newly appointed national police chief Bheki Cele will have to wait a few more days to hear the outcome of his court bid against IFP leaders.
South Africa’s police will be transformed into a well-oiled machine that will send criminals fleeing, the new police chief said on Thursday.
Bheki Cele’s intervention in a culpable homicide trial hasn’t even featured in court.
Police chief Bheki Cele has called for a law change so that police are not ”handcuffed” by the Criminal Procedure Act.
Police National Commissioner Bheki Cele’s argument in favour of a moratorium on issuing crime statistics is “not convincing”, according to the ISS.
New police National Commissioner Bheki Cele hit back at the opposition on Tuesday in a row over a mooted moratorium on crime statistics.
The Democratic Alliance on Monday urged police commissioner Bheki Cele to retract a comment that he would support a moratorium on crime statistics.
Cele’s appointment is aimed at tilting the political balance at the command level of the police service.
The appointment of Bheki Cele as SA’s new police national commissioner marks a continuation of the tough talk on policing and crime.
Opposition parties say that President Jacob Zuma has made a big mistake in appointing Bheki Cele as the new national commissioner of police.
Bheki Cele has been appointed national police commissioner, despite vehement objections from political parties earlier this week.
Bheki Cele has been appointed South Africa’s new police boss. He replaces embattled former police national commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 6 February 2009
KZN safety minister Bheki Cele denied provoking an attack between IFP and ANC supporters in Nongoma last weekend, his spokesperson said on Friday.
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/ 2 February 2009
As political intolerance flares in KwaZulu-Natal ahead of the general election, the IFP on Monday blamed police for the attacks in Nongoma.
KwaZulu-Natal transport minister Bheki Cele on Thursday called national bus operator SA Roadlink a ”killing machine” and ”a coffin on wheels”.
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/ 19 December 2008
SA Roadlink has taken KZN transport minister Bheki Cele to court in a bid to overturn his decision to withdraw its operating licence.
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/ 19 December 2008
The decision to ban SA Roadlink buses from the roads was justified in order to save lives, KwaZulu-Natal transport minister Bheki Cele said on Friday.
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/ 17 December 2008
National bus operator SA Roadlink had its licence to operate in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) withdrawn on Wednesday, the province’s transport minister said.