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Security cluster on high alert this festive season

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Road traffic officers and other members of law enforcement agencies will be out in full force this festive season to ensure compliance with the...

SA’s grim crime picture “improving” – Police Minister Bheki Cele

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While the crime picture remains grim and not ideal, Police Minister Bheki Cele says it is certainly getting better. Contributing to this, he said, is...

10 000 rapes in three months “deeply disturbing” – Police Minister...

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Police Minister Bheki Cele says the rape of 10 000 people in three months in South Africa is a “deeply disturbing disgrace”. This comes as the...

Cele clarifies jump in quarterly crime statistics

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Police Minister Bheki Cele says steep increases in the quarterly crime statistics, are a result of a normalisation of statistics as opposed to the...

SAPS making progress in addressing KZN violence

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The South African Police Service (SAPS) has made significant progress in dissecting the causes and effects of the recent wanton destruction of infrastructure and...

Cele satisfied with Durban, Pietermaritzburg mall security as businesses reopen

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Police Minister Bheki Cele has expressed his satisfaction at the security measures established at retail centres as they reopen for business following last week’s...

Contact crime shows decrease, while murder still on the rise

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While the South African Police Service (SAPS) recorded significant declines in contact crimes, murder and attempted murder increased in this category, Police Minister Bheki...

Cele bemoans growing prevalence of community violence

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Police Minister Bheki Cele has bemoaned the prevalence of violence in South African communities, saying this phenomenon was growing to “unacceptable proportions”. While all cases...

SAPS forensic laboratories clearing backlog, says Cele

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The case backlog experienced at the South African Police Service (SAPS) Forensic Science Laboratories has begun to clear, Police Minister Bheki Cele has told...

Cele condemns killing of bystander by police

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Police Minister Bheki Cele has described as inexcusable the killing of a bystander, who died after being allegedly shot by a policeman, as law...

Cele bemoans KZN police murders

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Police Minister Bheki Cele has called on KwaZulu-Natal communities to assist the South African Police Service track the killers of four officers murdered across...

COVID-19: Correctional Services eases prison overcrowding

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The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has made progress in placing low-risk inmates on parole, in order to ease overcrowding and counter the spread...

Respect lockdown regulations or face arrest

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Despite law enforcement authorities clamping down on defiant citizens for not observing COVID-19 regulations, sections of society continue to disobey lockdown rules. This was revealed...

Mthethwa probg Cele’s golden handshakes, appointments

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Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa is poised to strip the national police commissioner of discretionary powers to grant large retirement packages to...

DA questions ICD lease

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Information submitted to the Portfolio Committee on Police by the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) has revealed the exact value of the inflated...

Acting police chief speaks

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It was a tough-talking Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi who met with the media yesterday, in what was the acting National Police Commissioner's first...

Give acting police chief a chance: Mthethwa

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Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa says the public must give newly-appointed Acting National Commissioner of Police Major-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi an opportunity to...

Cele suspended, two ministers sacked

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Bheki Cele has been suspended as national police commissioner. In addition, two ministers have been sacked in the latest Cabinet reshuffle and...

Special announcementsby President Zuma

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Ladies and gentlemen of the media, Thank you for joining us today. I have a few announcements to make. These relate to...

Cele bolshy on job

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Media reports alleging that National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele has been fired "can only be a product of editorial incompetence or...

Zuma denies sacking Cele, Sunday paper stands by story

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The Presidency has denied a report in yesterday's Independent Newspapers, alleging that President Jacob Zuma had "relieved" the National Police Commissioner, General...

Clean audit for SAPS

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The South African Police Service has received an unqualified audit opinion from the Auditor General for the financial year 2010/2011, the organisation...

Cele suspension a “rumour”: Maharaj

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The Presidency was "not aware" of plans to suspend national police commissioner General Bheki Cele. "I am not aware of any letter...

Police chief faces suspension

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President Jacob Zuma is considering a response by national police commissioner General Bheki Cele as to why he should not be suspended...

Police: Criticism unfair

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The South African Police Service (SAPS) says a recent Institute for Security Studies (ISS) monograph on police corruption is unfair, one sided...

Cele issues dismissal ultimatum to Mdluli

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National police commissioner General Bheki Cele has asked suspended crime intelligence chief Lieutenant General Richard Mdluli to tell him why he should...

Police appoint new detective chief

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The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Bheki Cele has appointed Major General Vineshkumar Moonoo, 50, as Divisional Commissioner...

Police outline counter cop-kill plans

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With more than 50 police officers killed since the beginning of the year, the Police Ministry is going all out to deal...

Cele seeks probe into police tenders

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National police commissioner General Bheki Cele has asked the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate the way certain contracts for construction, uniforms...

Mahlangu-Nkabinde blunders to cost taxpayer

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Blunders by the Minister of Public Works, Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde, in two police lease scandals could reportedly cost taxpayers more than R1 billion....

Cele launches rural safety strategy

National police commissioner General Bheki Cele has unveiled a national rural safety strategy that envisages farmers, rural communities and the police co-operating...

Speaker weighs in on Madonsela

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National Assembly speaker Max Sisulu (pictured) will meet Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and Public Protector Thuli Mandonsela this week. "Mr Max Sisulu,...

Public Works takes police lease to court

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The Department of Public Works will ask the courts to rule on the validity of a R500 million 10-year building lease that...

Police training: M&G exposes brutality

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A Mail & Guardian investigation has turned an alarming spotlight on the South African Police Service's heavy-handed, military-style approach to the training...

Cele gives election policing thumbs up

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National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Bheki Cele, has thanked the thousands of men and women in blue who...

Cele shows police World Cup tech

National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele has shown the public and regional police chiefs some of the R665 million in equipment the...

Military police ranks in effect

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The South African police have reverted to the rank nomenclature used up to 1995, with commissioners again being addressed as generals and...

Cele blames high crime rate on bail, parole

National police commissioner Bheki Cele has sharply criticised other elements of the criminal justice system — notably those granting bail and parole...

6000 guns so far in current amnesty

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The police say they have so far collected over 6000 firearms and more than 82 288 rounds of ammunition in an amnesty...

Public ‘misled’ about gun laws

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The Freedom Front Plus has accused Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and national police Commissioner Bheki Cele of misleading the public about firearms....

DA questions scale, cost of Friday’s National Police Day

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The Democratic Alliance is questioning the scale and cost of this Friday's National Police Day celebration in Bloemfontein, saying it will divert...

SA police arrest man over World Cup death threat

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South Africa's police on Thursday arrested one of two men who threatened in a television interview to rob and kill fans at...

SA police arrest man over World Cup death threat

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South Africa's police on Thursday arrested one of two men who threatened in a television interview to rob and kill fans at...

Mthethwa pleased with holiday anticrime operations

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Countercrime operations during the festive season were an "overwhelming success ", police minister Nathi Mthethwa says. Mthethwa noted significant year- on-year declines...

Firearm amnesty in effect

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South Africans have until April 11 his year to dispose of illegally-possessed firearms and ammunition under a new amnesty that came into...

Police snipers commended

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National police commissioner Bheki Cele has commended Special Task Force snipers for shoting dead two kidnappers during a robbery-turned hostage-taking in the...

Cele lauds World Cup security

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National police commissioner Bheki Cele says security plans for next year's FIFA Soccer World Cup meets “international standards and have been used...

Security forces ready to safeguard World Cup

South Africa is ready to host Friday's FIFA Soccer World Cup final draw, the police say; while the SA Air Force has...