Police chief Riah Phiyega finds herself with fewer friends as SAPS top brass are forced to hang her out to dry.
The Marikana report revealed more than just operational unaccountability, it revealed a web of lies designed to keep the commission in the dark.
Marikana commissioners have hinted that there may be some criminal liability on the part of those who let the police actions on August 16 take place.
SA officers are twice as lethal as those in the US, where brutality cases are coming to light. They’re also six times more likely to die on the job.
But the bid to re-enlist unemployed officers will not solve all of the police service’s problems.
A report found that police conflate "unrest-related" and "violent" protests in their records to justify increased spending on public order policing.
The police have failed to solve the deaths of two government officials, seen as victims of politically motivated hits
A judge has condemned the lies and actions of a senior police officer assigned to the case.
We should never forget that our Constitution was designed to prevent the state from violating the rights of citizens and that includes crime suspects.
Anwa Dramat is holding out for more but police watchdog head Robert McBride is fighting back.
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The survey also found that three in ten adults fear going to a police station to report a crime.
The prediction of a turning to executive deference by the Mogoeng court has come up short.
It’s not every day that police officers are robbed of their service pistols and locked in their police vans, but it happened on Tuesday.
Public fury at the death of the Bafana Bafana captain may push policymakers into making bad decisions when it comes to crime and policing.
If the police can jump to attention when Senzo Meyiwa gets killed and put its top people on the case, why can’t it do that for other crimes?
Police have opened an arson inquiry into a fire that broke out shortly after midnight at SA’s first women, Christian and gay-friendly mosque.
Hundreds of police cars are out of action after the SAPS botched a multimillion-rand spares tender
Crime figures at the Sophiatown police station have risen and even the dilapidated flats where officers live with their families are not immune.
The crimes that are most preventable by police increased sharply last year. And the good news on rape is probably not good news at all.
Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko has urged the public to report criminals who’ve killed police officers.
Advocates For Transformation has welcomed the Constitutional Court’s decision to uphold the SAPS’ employment equity plan.
Police claims about shooting at miners as a last resort appear to be thrown into question by a video shown to the Marikana inquiry.
The battle to ensure the separation of the Hawks from the police, in a case stemming from 2008, continues in the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.
Deliberate political decisions have been taken to move South Africa towards repression, writes Jane Duncan.
Frustration leads some people to long for the death sentence, but capital punishment would do nothing against the causes of crime.
An SAPS unit commander ordered his men to sweep the koppie for guns instead of aiding the wounded.
Police oversight should include matters such as how budgets are spent and not just how officers treat civilians, the Khayelitsha commission has heard.
The SAPS has quizzed Lieutenant Colonel Salmon Vermaak about an episode where he instructed a junior police officer to fire at a protester in 2012.
In a complaint to Icasa, the SAPS says the "Ayisafani" advert "would incite violence against the police", according to the authority’s spokesperson.
The South African Police Union says the public is being misled over the dismissal of 1 017 police officers for having criminal records.
More than 1 000 police officers with criminal records will be removed from the South African Police Service, says Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.
Western Cape police commissioner Arno Lamoer has apologised to residents at the Khayelitsha commission for the lack of crime-fighting by the SAPS.