The South African Police Service and Stats SA recently published the country’s crime statistics for 2018, which showed an alarming increase in murder, cash-in-transit heists, rape, and bank robberies. This, however, only tells part of the story. Stats SA’s latest Victims of Crime Survey reveals that only a small number of crimes are reported to..
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South Africa – Where criminals run free and hard-working people suffer
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Welcome to the new South-Africa where crime is increasing and faith in cops decreasing
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The general level of crime as estimated by the Victims of Crime Survey (VOCS) has been declining during the past five years, but increased in 2016/17 and 2017/18, Stats SA said in a statement on Thursday. Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke released the annual survey in Pretoria on Thursday morning. According to the statement, household crimes increased..
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Police buildings are a safe haven … for criminals
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Police residences should be free from illegal activity. After all, it’s here where our men and women in blue – the law enforcement officers whose primary duty is to the protect people and property – live. But this is not the case in Durban, where police blocks of flats – which accommodate thousands of officers..
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SAPS top management acknowledges that some police officers can not read nor write
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MPs were “stunned” and “upset” when a member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) top management acknowledged that some police officials could not read or write.
This was evident from a reply by lt.genl. Fannie Masemola, national deputy commissioner of policing, on the presentation of a new police re-structure program to the parliamentary portfolio committee on police.
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Outcry as SAPS spend millions on “most expensive bulletproof vests in the world”
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Even when the ANC Elective Conference is dominating headlines, the Sunday Times still managed to find some separate story to break. This time, it’s about the South African Police Service purchasing possibly the most expensive bulletproof vests in the world. The report states that R6.7 million was spent on 200 hi-tech lightweight vests for ballistics..
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