The Independent Complaints Directorate is investigating a policeman who allegedly shot dead a woman motorist outside the Kempton Park police station.
The SAPS has distanced itself from a secret intelligence report that allegedly revealed plots to oust President Jacob Zuma as the ANC president.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has slammed the SAPS for improper conduct in the controversial procurement of a R500-million lease.
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/ 6 February 2011
Police officers do not know and understand their own regulations, the Professional Journalists’ Association of South Africa said on Saturday.
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/ 24 November 2010
Psychological services need to be boosted within SAPS to ensure members can fully carry out their duties, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said.
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/ 20 October 2010
The DA is to ask Auditor General Terence Nombembe to conduct an investigation into the SAPS’s firearm management system and policies.
An interim interdict that prohibits all members of the SAPS from joining the public-service strike was granted in the early hours of Thursday morning.
There was "nothing dodgy" about a multi-million rand property deal for new police offices in Pretoria, the Department of Public Works said on Monday.
A report has found that law enforcement agencies have been slack about fighting corruption since the Scorpions were shut down.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Wednesday proposed a five-point plan to "clean up" the South African Police Service (SAPS).
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/ 25 February 2010
The South African Police Service is set to return to "apartheid-era ranks" on April 1, DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard said on Thursday.
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/ 27 January 2010
The police are "unwittingly fuelling the illegal arms trade" by ordering new guns to replace those that have been lost or stolen, the DA says.
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/ 25 January 2010
e.tv has until Thursday to make representations to the national director of public prosecutions regarding subpoenas issued against two reporters.
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/ 21 January 2010
Researchers and the police trade union have warned that the South African Police Service’s drive to lure back 50 000 retired officers could founder.
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/ 18 November 2009
It is unfortunate that civilians and police die during armed conflict with criminals, but it is a reality, Fikile Mbabula said on Wednesday.
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/ 17 November 2009
New data shows the rot has set in at the SAPS and the government appears unconcerned about the most fundamental problems, the DA says.
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/ 23 October 2009
Gender and child rights activists are up in arms over last month’s crime statistics, claiming that the section on sexual offences is “a mockery”.
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/ 11 October 2009
The metro police service is to be integrated into the SA Police Service to form ”one super police force”, a police department spokesperson said.
The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday urged President Jacob Zuma to appoint a national police commissioner with experience, expertise and independence.
Fifteen members of the Western Cape’s top crime-fighting unit are being investigated for murder, writes
Pearlie Joubert.
There has been a 56% increase in the number of missing police dockets over the past year, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.
Specialised units of the police force still use barbaric interrogation methods. Sello S Alcock reports.
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/ 26 February 2009
The South African Police Service were implementing corrective measures following a performance audit by the Auditor General.
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/ 28 January 2009
Plea of a conspiracy and personal vendetta after saying ‘Charge me’.
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/ 22 January 2009
Finalist — Drivers of Change: Individual Award: Penny Steyn.
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/ 14 January 2009
The Scorpions have secured subpoenas against police officers, ordering them to surrender evidence in the Selebi case, a media report said on Wednesday
The DA on Friday called for an investigation into the claim that portions of a video tape seized by the president’s VIP officers were deleted.
The DA said on Wednesday the South African Police Service was incapable of holding unruly police officers accountable for intimidating motorists.
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/ 5 December 2008
The head of the police’s legal division — fingered for incompetence in a report — is being probed by Minister of Safety and Security Nathi Mthetwa.
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/ 18 November 2008
The SAPS has served ANC breakaway leader Mosiuoa Lekota with a notice that his bodyguards will be withdrawn, officials said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 September 2008
The South African Police Service (SAPS) on Tuesday dismissed as ”incorrect” reports that its restructuring process has stopped.
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/ 8 September 2008
Trade union Popcru said on Monday that the ”unilateral restructuring process” in the South African Police Service (SAPS) had been stopped.