Police Misconduct
latest news & developmentsWhen the protector becomes the perpetrator, SAPS faces a GBV crisis
The arrest of top detective Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya on serious sexual offence charges highlights a deepening crisis of trust and leadership in the fight against GBVF…
Gauteng teacher wins case against police minister after unlawful arrest, detention
Police were unaware of the law and a national instruction that gives them discretion in dealing with domestic violence arrests
Let’s redirect our Oscar Pistorius outrage to the broken and unbalanced justice system
Editorial: Even if Pistorius goes to jail for the rest of his life, it won’t fix the broken, failing and unbalanced justice system.
Police commissioner rejects SAIRR report on SAPS criminality
Riah Phiyega has rejected a South African Institute for Race Relations report on police involvement in serious and violent crimes as "malicious".
Lack of trust cripples fight against crime
A commission of inquiry has highlighted the massive task facing the SAPS and the community.
Police must learn to make protest work
They must assume that people want to deliver messages – and help them to do so.
Khuli Chana shooting a symptom of inept ‘use of force’ policy
When musician Khuli Chana was shot by the police on Monday morning, the officers may themselves have been unclear on whether they were acting legally.
One thousand cops arrested since 2010
One thousand police officials have been arrested for crime in the past three years, says Gauteng police commissioner Mzwandile Petros.
Crime stats rot spreads
Disillusioned senior officer quits and blows the whistle on the alleged fiddling of case dockets.
Hewana’s behaviour ‘not in line with official conduct’
Former Goodwood police station commander Siphiwe Hewana’s interference with the Tony Yengeni drunken-driving docket was not common practice for SAPS.
French journo ‘brutalised’ by metro cops
SA police are investigating a case of police brutality aimed at an award winning French journalist, after her ordeal made headlines in France.
Cops in torture death probe
Fifteen members of the Western Cape’s top crime-fighting unit are being investigated for murder, writes Pearlie Joubert.