Tag: public order policing
Oversight visit exposes severe resource shortages at Cape Town Public Order...
A recent unannounced oversight visit by Ian Cameron and Nicholas Gotsell to the Cape Town Public Order Policing (POP) unit at Faure Base has...
New allegations on Marikana shooting, police torture
Police are declining to comment on allegations and a newspaper report that workers killed during the Marikana shooting were fleeing from police....
Marikana commission appointed
President Jacob Zuma has announced the commissioners and terms of reference of a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate "matters of public,...
POP
The trouble with policing crowds, especially violent ones, in a democracy is that the protesters have all the rights and police have...
Public order policing requires adequate training, more personnel – expert
There is a major lack of qualified personnel and no training available for public order police in South Africa, says Brigadier (retd)...
Minister of police affirms importance of public order policing policy
Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa outlined the importance of the police ministry's new policy on public order policing at defenceWeb's public order...
Public order policing is just one link in the chain of...
Public order policing units form just one link in the chain that secures safety and security and are only the last resort...
Balancing the right to safety and security and the right to...
The single constant of public order policing is balancing the rights of people to stage protests with the right to public order...
Presentation POP conference: New Age Public Order Policing
It's always a toss-up – the right to demonstrate on one side and the right to public order on the other. No...
Crowd control is one of the SAPS’s most important functions –...
With the increasing number of service delivery protests and the increasingly violent nature of protests in South Africa, policing crowds has become...
Service delivery protest turns violent
Police fired rubber bullets at protestors in Zenzele, Ekurhuleni, after running battles with residents protesting the lack of electricity and other services.
Residents...
South Africa has the ingredients for Arab Spring style protests; will...
South Africa has all the basic ingredients for the type of dissatisfaction that could lead to highly contagious anti-government protests of the...
Police need more training to deal with impending public order protests...
The South Africa Police Service requires adequate training and resources to counter ongoing service delivery protests and to deal with imminent Arab...
Service delivery protests result in call for police clampdown
The recent service delivery protests this week in Gauteng, which caused millions of rands worth of damage, resulted in the ANC calling...
As disaffected youth protest over poverty and politics, police policy needs...
As the gap between the rich and the poor widens, rioting is becoming a common sight amongst disaffected youth, from Algeria to...
Mthethwa approves new police policy on public protests
Police minister Nathi Mthethwa today approved a policy, which has been months in the works, for the police to better manage public...
