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ISS backs Fivaz call to completely restructure, re-purpose declining SAPS

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The Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has fully backed the call by first National Commissioner of the new South African Police Service (SAPS)...

SAPS looking for a new armoured troop carrier

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The South African Police Service (SAPS) recently issued a tender for a new armoured troop carrier, fitted with Mobile Adjustable Rescue/Assault System (MARS) to...

DA calls for body cameras to monitor KZN police after 107...

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With an average of nine suspects killed each month by the South African Police Service (SAPS) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) between July 2023 and July...

Crime statistics: who are we to believe?

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Once again, statistics on crime from the country’s two most important sources wildly contradict each other. South African Police Service (SAPS) crime statistics do...

Government losing 1 800 firearms a year to criminals

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There are 2.2-million firearms owned by 502 state entities in South Africa. Of these, an estimated 1 800 are being lost or stolen every...

Police recover 200+ firearms out of more than seven thousand stolen

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Minister Senzo Mchunu’s SA Police Service (SAPS) recovered less than five percent of the recorded 7 653 stolen and 588 lost firearms in the...

Police recover vehicles, livestock and dismantle illegal crossings in five day...

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During a five-day operation along the Free State and Lesotho border, a multi-disciplinary team of law enforcement and community stakeholders intercepted 72 suspects along...

Concerning crime figures revealed in key Stats SA report

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Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) conducted the Governance, Public Safety, and Justice Survey (GPSJS) from April 2023 to March 2024. The GPSJS is a...

Contact crime on the rise in four provinces

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Senzo Mchunu, the Minister of Police, released South Africa’s quarterly crime stats on Friday, 30 August, indicating crime is on the rise, with contact...

Counterfeit dollars, illegal foreigners and ammunition found during police op in...

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At least 123 undocumented foreign nationals were arrested during an early integrated operation that also saw the recovery of counterfeit US dollars equivalent to...

SAPS intercepts convoy carrying R1 million in Illicit cigarettes

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Officers of the Limpopo Provincial Flying Squad have intercepted a convoy of five “high-powered vehicles” loaded with illicit cigarettes, and following a high-speed pursuit,...

More weapons theft from SAPS facilities “a security crisis”

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Theft of, among others, stun grenades from an SA Police Service (SAPS) base in Eerste Rivier is, according to the Democratic Alliance (DA), part...

Police Committee, stakeholders agree on pathway to greater police accountability

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The Portfolio Committee on Police has announced an agreement with critical stakeholders within the policing portfolio to work together towards strengthen the accountability of...

Police commit to clamping down on gang violence and extortion in...

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The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), General Fannie Masemola, has deployed extra capacity to the Eastern Cape province to clamp...

Angola’s crackdown on protesters could fuel separatist violence

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On 30 July, an Angolan court sentenced 198 people – men, women and the elderly – to four to eight years in jail for...

8594 vacancies at SAPS Detective Services a “big concern”

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The South African Police Service currently has a vacancy of 8594 within the Detective Services, which is a big concern due to South Africa’s...

Mchunu condemns corrupt cops who assaulted, robbed civilian

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Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu has expressed concern and disappointment over corrupt members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) after four members assaulted...

KZN SAPS arrested over 11000 suspects in July as war on...

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A co-ordinated effort by the South African Police Service in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has yielded 313 illegal firearms and the arrest of 11 003 suspects...

Masemola addresses concerns over high number of suspects killed by police...

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South African Police Service (SAPS) National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola has noted concerns over the “number of suspects that have been shot and killed...

Police upscaling efforts to tackle kidnappings

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Recent weeks have seen a noticeable increase in kidnappings around South Africa. National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola stated these incidents were a “concern,”...

Huge level of recent SAPS activity yields “positive results” – Masemola

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As police continue to crack down on violent and serious crime, South African Police Service (SAPS) National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola has said several...

SAPS Issues Tender to Equip National & Local Security Control Centres...

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The South African Police Service has issued a tender for a network of CCTV cameras. This tender, Specification 32161/2024 aims to “establish a roster/panel...

Can The New IPID Bill Make KZN Safer?

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) Amendment Bill into law. This new bill intends to affirm the “institutional and...

POPCRU: 300 SAPS Suicides Since 2017

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The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) has noted an “unfortunate incident” involving members of the SA Police Service that left two dead...

Interview with Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Ian Cameron

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Some personal background – your interests and what set you on your present path? Are you sufficiently capacitated in your present job – do...

Action Society blasts R2 billion police protection unit budget

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Civil rights organisation Action Society has condemned newly appointed police minister Senzo Mchunu’s announcement that he will allocate R2 billion for VIP protection services,...

ActionSA calls for Mchunu to use thousands of reservists in anti-crime...

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After new Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s commitment to enhance police capacity by expanding the workforce to bolster their fight against crime, ActionSA has called...

SAPS uncovers massive R2 billion drug lab

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Minister of Police, Senzo Mchunu, applauded an operation by a joint team of Limpopo Hawks and Limpopo SAPS. The operation resulted in four arrests...

Police Minister calls for expanded R113.5 billion policing budget

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Police Minister Senzo Mchunu followed up on Monday’s speech outlining new policing priorities by calling for an increase in the police budget, which totals...

Tough measures and technology among new priorities for SAPS

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The “mission is clear, our country must be safe for all,” says South Africa’s new police minister Senzo Mchunu, who outlined the new priorities...

Maintaining law and order a key part of Solidarity’s plan for...

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Law and order must be maintained in order for South Africa’s economy to flourish, as crime stifles business confidence and general confidence in the...

POPCRU hoping for better resourced police and efforts to tackle policing...

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The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) has called on the newly appointed police minister Senzo Mchunu to improve working conditions for police...

A safer South Africa is within reach, says ISS

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The SA Police Service’s 2024/25 Annual Performance Plan, tabled three weeks ago, revealed that the force cannot keep up with the country’s growing population. Reduce...

More boots on the ground to maintain stability in KZN

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More than three hundred additional Public Order Police officers have been deployed to KwaZulu-Natal to maintain stability in the province following the 2024 National...

How can South Africa’s minister of police improve policing?

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At its launch on 8 May 2023, the police’s Operation Shanela (Zulu for ‘sweep’) was billed as an unapologetic and decisive initiative to ‘fight crime and...

South Africa’s security forces once brutally entrenched apartheid. It’s been a...

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One of the important tasks that faced South Africa’s democratic government after 1994 was to reform the apartheid-era security apparatus. The African National Congress (ANC),...

Criminals are registering security companies to access firearms, court hears

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Corrupt police officers are helping criminals open security companies to access firearms, the Verulam Magistrate’s Court has heard. Hawks investigator Detective Warrant Officer, Sivan Naidoo...

ProtectionWeb launches as South Africa’s newest security sector news publication

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South Africa’s security sector is massive, employing nearly 3 million people, and the government’s peace and security budget stands at nearly R250 billion a...

SAPS cannot keep up with growing population, one police officer for...

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The SA Police Service’s 2024/25 Annual Performance Plan, tabled two weeks ago, revealed that the force cannot keep up with the country’s growing population....

Kenya’s mission to Haiti: how the 1 000-strong force is preparing...

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Kenya has temporarily halted controversial plans to send a specially trained contingent of 1 000 police officers to Haiti, where armed gang violence recently...

R240 billion for security cluster allocated in 2024 defence budget

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More than R750 billion has been allocated to the security cluster over the next three years to up the ante in Government's fight against...

SA’s second quarter murder rate drops slightly but remains stubbornly high

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South Africa’s murder rate dropped by .8% between July and September this year, with 6 945 people murdered, the latest crime statistics have revealed. Police...

South Africa getting 30 000 more police officers to bolster fight...

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Deputy President Paul Mashatile announced on Thursday that the government is working around the clock to capacitate the police force which will see the...

SAPS maintains its operations are driving down crime

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The South African Police Service’s (SAPS’s) intensive campaign, Operation Shanela, continues to make a positive contribution to the decline of crime in the country,...

Crime still unacceptably high, but SA records a decrease in murder...

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Police Minister Bheki Cele says while there are still unacceptably high crime levels, violent crime levels are starting to show a decrease. “We have analysed...

SAPS embarks on a recruitment drive

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The South African Police Service (SAPS) has embarked on its 2024/2025 recruitment process in which an additional 10 000 youth between the ages of...

China’s policing models make inroads in Africa

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China’s expanded police engagements in Africa could have potentially far-reaching consequences for African security governance. Ugandan Special Forces and over 30 Chinese commandos conducted a...

ISS: Should SA municipalities get greater policing powers?

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With murder and other crimes on the rise in South Africa, better responses to violence and crime are urgently needed. Cape Town Mayor Geordin...

How Nairobi police failures let people get away with murder

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At least one person gets killed every two days in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. Most of these cases are never resolved. Only 94 murder...

Nigerian police: why improving public trust has proven difficult

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Policing plays a vital role in maintaining law and order in any society. Public trust and confidence in the police is a concern in...