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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.
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/ 5 September 2008
No police officers will lose their jobs in a restructuring process aimed at streamlining the force, the national police commissioner’s office says.
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/ 4 September 2008
The DA has raised concerns over the South African Police Service’s ability to undertake complex crime investigations.
Justice Department DG received a harsh rebuke from Constitutional Court judges this week over a challenge regarding the dissolution of the Scorpions.
There are more than 300 small-vessel launch sites and slipways around South Africa’s coastline that are not monitored by police.
The bullet-proof vests issued to police members are ”too bulky, heavy and impede movement”, DA leader Helen Zille said on Thursday.
Another ATM is bombed in Gauteng as a media report reveals that explosives stolen from gold mines are being sold on the black market.
Police and National Intelligence Agency leaders appear to be waging a war of attrition against the National Prosecuting Authority and the Scorpions.
Metro police officers will continue their protest outside their Johannesburg headquarters on Thursday while union bosses meet with city management.
Protesting metro police officers fired live ammunition at South African Police Service (SAPS) members in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
The disbanding of the Scorpions will protect corrupt and criminal politicians from prosecution, the deputy director of Public Prosecutions warned on Thursday. The Directorate of Special Operations, also known as the Scorpions, would lose its ability to independently investigate government officials if it was incorporated into the police, said Billy Downer, SC.
The recent xenophobic violence cannot be attributed to a single factor and is not necessarily the work of a so-called ”third force”, government spokesperson Themba Maseko said on Thursday. ”In some cases, there is some evidence of copy-cat activities in which criminals took advantage of the news story to conduct criminal acts,” he said.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the South African Police Service are hard at work repairing their relationship ahead of a planned merger with the Scorpions, NPA acting head Mokotedi Mpshe said on Wednesday. ”We’re focusing primarily on salvaging whatever relations there are,” Mpshe told reporters in Johannesburg.
The seven students expelled from the Mafikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU) have been granted permission to continue with studies and examinations. Spokesperson Lester Mpolokeng said the seven students either expelled or suspended from the university would remain provisionally suspended.
A Somali community in Johannesburg on Thursday accused police of firing live ammunition at its members as more xenophobic attacks were reported in Gauteng and former Cabinet minister Kader Asmal questioned claims of ‘third force’ involvement in the attacks.
The deployment of the army to areas hit by xenophobic attacks was long overdue, opposition parties said on Wednesday after President Thabo Mbeki’s nod to South African National Defence Force ”involvement”. South African police say 42 people have been killed in violence in Johannesburg that has raged for more than a week and 16Â 000 have been displaced.