"Brutality" is a word that cannot fail to evoke a visceral response: those who perpetrate it are bad.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has warned police officers to adhere to their code of conduct.
News that Daveyton police beat and dragged a man behind a police van has sickened South Africans. But police torture of civilians is nothing new.
Join us as Phillip de Wet speaks to security experts about the quality of SA’s police after the bungle in the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing.
The song and dance goes on but the African National Congress’ aim to save Zuma’s skin has been achieved.
The release of the interim festive season crime statistics may seem positive but leaves experts with many unanswered questions.
Speculation has been mounting about how high the apparent cover-up goes surrounding the alleged tampering with the crime scene in the massacre.
Pagad – which became notorious for violence in the 90s – says its attempts to help drug-affected communities in Jo’burg have been thwarted by police.
The police’s strategy of disclosing as little as possible had been wearing thin and it was off-camera events that took centre stage.
Mandebvu, in central Durban, is home to 55 Zimbabwean men who pay R30 a day in rent to live there, sharing five bathrooms and seven toilets.
Police have welcomed the auditor general’s report about the crimes reported on the 10111 call centre that were not registered or investigated.
Nearly 60% of crimes reported to the police’s 10111 call centre do not get registered properly and are therefore not investigated.
The Farlam Commission of Inquiry has been given a four-month deadline for completion – but matters could be moving too quickly.
The SAPS has raided hostels at Lonmin’s Karee platinum mine to disarm miners after government announced a crackdown on the carrying of weapons.
The inquest into the murder of Oupa Ramogibe has been a harrowing ordeal of double victimisation for family members who have given evidence.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate is investigating accusations of apartheid-style intimidation against one of SA’s top cops.
The events at Marikana were not only a human tragedy, but also a disaster for policing in SA, one that will leave a stain on the image of the SAPS.
The South African Police Service has been entered into another multimillion-rand property deal that was not put out to tender, writes Matuma Letsoalo.
The national treasury has recommended that the South African Police Service reduce staff numbers by 9 000.
The national treasury says the South African Police Service should reduce its staff numbers by 9000 people.
The chairperson of Parliament’s portfolio committee on police has questioned the integrity and competence of South African Police Service management.
Read the secret Crime Intelligence Division report which outlines alleged abuses of its funds by division head Lt-Gen Richard Mdluli.
Citizens have no way of knowing whether they will get value for their tax money, especially when it comes to policing.
South Africa’s men and women in blue have been behaving like violent criminals and there is a rot developing within our policing bodies.
Suspended national police commissioner Bheki Cele came under scrutiny after taking the stand on the third day of a misconduct inquiry against him.
The Kruger National Park has said it would meet with union representatives in a bid to end the nearly month-old strike by field rangers.
Property tycoon Roux Shabangu has joined other voices in a public effort to validate the deal.
Documents confirm the problematic top-secret security clearance of a senior crime intelligence official.
In spite of the troubles of his two predecessors, the role of acting police chief does not appear to daunt Major General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says the recent spate of cop killings can’t be blamed on the police’s tough stance on crime and "shoot to kill" policy.
The news reports lately about attacks on the Public Protector can be confusing. See our timeline to make sense of the story.
Seventy-one people have been arrested in Katlehong for sending intimidating letters to foreign-owned businesses, police said on Thursday.