Tag: SAPS
Government charts new course on domestic security, but execution remains in...
South Africa’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) has laid out an expansive framework aimed at restoring domestic stability and public safety, following years of...
Opinion: The ANC and the Mkhwanazi allegations
President Cyril Ramaphosa has faced one of his most severe tests of his leadership and resolve over the allegations made by Lieutenant General Nhlanhla...
Parliamentary committees welcome inquiry into Mkhwanazi allegations
The chairpersons of Parliament’s Justice and Police committees have welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of a judicial commission of inquiry to probe allegations made...
Mkhwanazi allegations: What the judicial commission of inquiry will probe?
President Cyril Ramaphosa has outlined the scope of a judicial commission of inquiry that will focus on investigating “allegations relating to the infiltration of...
SAPS leadership shaken as Masemola breaks silence on Mkhwanazi allegations and...
National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola has broken his silence amid a deepening crisis within the South African Police Service (SAPS), announcing a leadership...
Explosive allegations rock SAPS, political pressure mounts as Ramaphosa vows response
South Africa’s law enforcement community is in turmoil following a high-stakes media briefing by KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. In a...
Call for urgent ghost-worker audit in SAPS Crime Intelligence following several...
The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration, Mr Jan de Villiers, on Thursday submitted a formal request to the Minister...
Police continue to disrupt illegal mining and smuggling operations
A coordinated series of operations conducted under Operation Vala Umgodi has led to multiple arrests across several provinces for offences including illegal mining, possession...
No fear or favour as Hawks swoop down on their own...
Four police officials attached to the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation in Gauteng and Gauteng Provincial SAPS have been arrested alongside two civilians for...
South African Police Service launches new E-Recruitment system amid major expansion
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has unveiled a new digital recruitment system aimed at modernising and streamlining the hiring of police trainees. This...
SAPS details progress and partnerships in new firearms management system
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has provided updated information on the development of its new Firearms Control Management System (FCMS), including its collaboration...
Police chairperson calls for immediate suspension of every arrested SAPS officer
The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Mr Ian Cameron, has called on the South African Police Service (SAPS) management to suspend every...
SAPS launch Operation Shanela II to tackle violent crime and strengthen...
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has formally launched Operation Shanela II, a coordinated, intelligence-driven national campaign aimed at intensifying the fight against serious...
Senior crime intelligence officials arrested in expanding SAPS corruption scandal
The South African Police Service’s (SAPS's) Crime Intelligence division is facing an escalating crisis as a second wave of arrests were carried out on...
Committee urges SAPS to prioritise training to ensure that all stations...
The Portfolio Committee on Police has reiterated its concern that some South African police stations continue to ignore the National Commissioner’s directive that police...
Suspension of SAPS officer in possession of drugs for two months...
The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Mr Ian Cameron, is dumbfounded by the decision to overturn the sanction to dismiss a member...
Major SAPS win in ongoing fight to end farm murders
In a recent significant victory for South Africa’s fight against farm murders, three men have been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Limpopo Division...
IPID investigations backlogged with nearly 15,000 open cases
South Africa’s Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is facing a massive national backlog of misconduct investigations, with a staggering 14,907 cases still open as...
SAPS retables strategic plan and budget amid pressure to improve crime...
The South African Police Service (SAPS) presented its revised 2025 to 2030 Strategic Plan (SP) and its Annual Performance Plan (APP) for the 2025/26...
Meet SAPS’ Western Cape’s youngest diver, Constable Fritz
In Youth Month, South Africa honors its youth, and the South African Police Service (SAPS) is celebrating the excellent young officers who embody bravery,...
Police minister faces tough questions from police committee chair
Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu received some tough questions from Portfolio Committee on Police Chairperson Ian Cameron on two critical fronts, raising concerns over...
SAPS defends use of lethal force as “last resort” amid rising...
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has reiterated that the use of lethal force remains a “last resort”, following parliamentary scrutiny over the growing...
SAPS border unit personnel move to BMA to be scrutinised
Improving operational efficiency or retaining personnel are probably the questions at the centre of a reportedly scheduled meeting this week between the men at...
Police chairperson welcomes service interventions, especially adoption of technology and capacitation...
The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Mr Ian Cameron, welcomes the service enhancement initiatives announced by the Minister of Police, Mr Senzo...
South Africa’s youngest Special Task Force operator: A Youth month tribute...
As South Africa marks Youth Month – a month of celebrating the bravery and input of the country’s youth – there’s one young man...
No high-level arrests under Vala Umgodi, but SAPS deepens international efforts...
Operation Vala Umgodi, launched as a national initiative to combat illegal mining in South Africa, focuses primarily on disrupting illicit activities at known hotspots...
SAPS disciplinary system unlikely to sanction police brutality
A new Institute for Security Studies (ISS) analysis shows that police face little chance of being sanctioned internally by the South African Police Service...
SAPS uses lifestyle reviews and Regulation 18 to detect and address...
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is leveraging lifestyle reviews and financial disclosure regulations to monitor and manage the integrity of its senior personnel....
Landmark cybercrime conviction: Former IT employee sentenced to eight years for...
Lucky Majangandile Erasmus (36) was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment on 3 June by the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in connection with a high-profile...
Crime reduction in Gauteng welcomed
The Gauteng Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Community Safety has commended law enforcement officers from across the province for their hard work which has...
SAPS faces scrutiny over legal oversight, wasteful expenditure and lack of...
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has admitted it does not maintain a record of civil matters where legal counsel advised settlement on the...
South African Police Service faces mental health crisis as suicides continue...
In a series of alarming revelations, it has been disclosed that the South African Police Service (SAPS) has faced a troubling rise in suicides...
218 police officers dismissed for corruption in five years, only 12...
In a recent parliamentary reply, Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu confirmed that 218 police officers have been dismissed over the past five years for...
Police committee recommends suspension of PSIRA Director and CFO for material...
The Portfolio Committee on Police has strongly recommended to the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority Council (PSiRA) to suspend the Director and Chief Financial...
Meet SAPS pistol sharp shooter – Constable Tramaine Fredericks
As South Africa marks Youth Month, the South African Police Service (SAPS) honours the dedicated and dynamic young officers who consistently go above and...
Suspended SAPS Officers Cost Taxpayers Over R8 Million in 2023/24
A total of 163 members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) were suspended during the 2023/24 financial year. This was confirmed in a...
SAPS Limpopo’s Major General Morakaladi retires after four decades of Transformative...
After an outstanding 39-year career of dedicated service, transformation, and service to the people, the South African Police Service (SAPS) in Limpopo formally bade...
Cue the cameras: how SAPS bodycams can deliver tangible results
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is piloting 100 body-worn cameras (BWCs) this year. While some advocate for an accelerated, full-scale rollout, starting small...
Hawks Arrest Two for Alleged Municipal Fraud in Bultfontein
The Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation Unit in Welkom has arrested two suspects, aged 42 and 57, in connection with a fraud case involving...
From the Beat to the Boardroom: How Dr. Jemina Modise is...
In the very heart of Gauteng’s Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, where policing intersects with community development, stands a strong woman reshaping the face of what...
Police Committee holds SAPS to account on budget, infrastructure, and crime...
The Portfolio Committee on Police recently convened a marathon oversight session to examine the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) 2025/26 Annual Performance Plan (APP),...
Mashatile’s VIP protection officers acquitted by Police, sparking outrage
Eight members of Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s VIP Protection Unit, who were filmed assaulting civilians on Johannesburg’s N1 highway in July 2023, have been...
Government steps up efforts against construction mafia
Minister of Police, Senzo Mchunu, has outlined the government’s strategy to combat the so-called “construction mafia”, stating that the South African Police Service (SAPS)...
Analysis: The case for a South African gendarmerie to combat crime
South Africa is no stranger to the persistent challenges of high crime rates, under-resourced police services, and deep-seated socio-economic inequality. These issues have long...
BMA officials nabbed in Beitbridge sting
Two Border Management Authority (BMA) Immigration officials, together with several other suspects, are facing charges of corruption after being arrested at an intelligence-driven operation...
Nearly 2 000 suspects arrested for illegal mining over last month
Nationwide Vala Umgodi operations has led to the arrest of more than 1 700 suspects of various nationalities in March, who were apprehended for...
Legoete faces more pushback against call to use the SANDF to...
Dakota Legoete, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans, has faced further backlash for suggesting the South African National Defence Force...
Technology, improved crime intelligence, upskilled detectives to boost crime-fighting
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has reaffirmed the South African Police Service's (SAPS’s) commitment to efficient and accountable policing following the National Policing Summit, and...
Police dismantle multiple drug labs worth R50 million
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has dismantled several clandestine drug laboratories in Standerton, Mpumalanga, uncovering illicit drugs and equipment valued at over R50...
Experts debunk calls for SANDF to fight crime
Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans, ANC MP Dakota Legoete, has called for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF)...
