Tag: South African Police Service
Police Committee concerned about SAPS personnel shortages
The Portfolio Committee on Police has raised serious concerns regarding the South African Police Service’s (SAPS’s) recruitment and retention strategies, along with the slow...
Data-driven strategies take centre stage at policing conference
The transformative potential of evidence-based policing was at the heart of discussions at the Evidence-Based Policing South Africa Conference, held in Cape Town on...
SAPS seeks high tech tools to modernise crime investigations
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is modernising its crime-fighting investigative capabilities by seeking advanced solutions for analysing crime scene forensics and investigating money...
SAPS issues tender for armoured double cab bakkies
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has issued a tender bid document for the armouring of several models of double cab bakkies, notably Ford...
Defence Minister to visit Stilfontein as significant number of illegal miners...
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga, together with Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, will this morning (Friday 15 November) visit the North West Province...
Nearly 400 SAPS firearms missing in six months
Police officers lost or were robbed of 371 service firearms in the six-month period between October last year to March 2024.
This is according to...
Police training and recruitment need to be improved – ISS
Recruitment, training, and promotions within the South African Police Service (SAPS) have been sub-optimal, with serious consequences on the professionalism and management of the...
ISS backs Fivaz call to completely restructure, re-purpose declining SAPS
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
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...
Government losing 1 800 firearms a year to criminals
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...
SA’s increasing crime figures “tell sobering story”
Crime is generally on the increase and crimes that are of concern include murder, rape, hijacking, kidnapping for ransom payments, and extortion.
This is according...
8594 vacancies at SAPS Detective Services a “big concern”
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...
DA calls for SAPS to be held to account for closing...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for South African Police Service (SAPS) leadership to be called before the Portfolio Committee on Police to account...
Police upscaling efforts to tackle kidnappings
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
As police continue to crack down on violent and serious crime, South African Police Service (SAPS) National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola has said several...
POPCRU: 300 SAPS Suicides Since 2017
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) has noted an “unfortunate incident” involving members of the SA Police Service that left two dead...
SAPS to recruit additional members to combat crime
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is set to recruit additional members to bolster its ranks over the three-year Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) period...
Tough measures and technology among new priorities for SAPS
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...
Senzo Mchunu replaces Bheki Cele as Police Minister
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday 30 June announced the new members of the National Executive for the seventh administration, and this includes a new...
Over 1.2 million calls to Gauteng 10111 line dropped in a...
Over 1.2 million calls to Gauteng’s police emergency call centre were “dropped” from 1 March 2023 and 1 March this year.
In a recent parliamentary...
Majority of missing SAPS firearms not recovered
Men and women in National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola’s SA Police Service (SAPS) reported 742 firearms stolen in the 2022/23 financial year with...
SAPS issues armoured vehicle tender for Special Task Force
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has issued a tender for the conversion of a Nissan Patrol 5.6 V8 LE Premium, or similar type...
How can South Africa’s minister of police improve policing?
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...
Highly skilled police officers leaving SAPS at an alarming rate, warns...
Highly skilled and specialised members of the Special Task Force and National Intervention Unit divisions are exiting the SA Police Service at an alarming...
KZN police boss addresses 3000 commissioned officers on ‘performance’ and ‘shortfalls’
KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi met with 3000 commissioned officers on Tuesday to gauge performances and “account on all the shortfalls...
New police recruits report for basic training
The first 4 500 men and women of 10 000 total to make it through SA Police Service (SAPS) recruitment procedures reported for training...
Operation Vala Umgodi nets 18 chrome-laden trucks in Limpopo
With the end of April – and end of the SA Army Light Modern Brigade (LMB) deployment – approaching, the SA Police Service (SAPS)-headed...
SAPS cannot keep up with growing population, one police officer for...
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....
Private Security Industry proves strong force multiplier in Eyes and Ears...
More than 1 600 alerts generated in the Eyes and Ears Initiative (E2) and Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system led to 133 vehicles...
Illegal mining ops halted in Free State, North West
Police supported by soldiers from the SA Army Light Modern Brigade (LMB) have conducted “disruptive operations” against illegal miners in the Free State and...
Armscor seeking troop carrying helicopter for the SAPS
Armscor has issued a tender for a ‘troop carrying helicopter’ for the South African Police Service (SAPS) as the police bolster their aerial resources.
The...
Police seize homemade river crossing equipment
Police have prevented suspected smugglers from using makeshift equipment to cross the Limpopo River.
A statement issued by the SA Police Service (SAPS) Provincial Commissioner’s...
Another government security cluster building shut over unsafe conditions
Days after the South African Air Force’s Headquarters in Pretoria was closed to employees due to malfunctioning ventilation systems, the national head office of...
South Africa’s murder rate increased in the last quarter
South Africa’s murder rate went up by 2% in the last quarter of 2023, with nearly 8 000 people murdered, but sexual offences declined...
Gauteng Government receives CCTV camera access to fight crime
Efforts to fight crime in Gauteng have received a much-needed boost through a partnership with Vuma Cam, which will allow the province to have...
140 police officers killed over the last four years
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has lost 140 officers in the line of duty over the last four years.
“On National Police Day, the...
Denel pledges support for SAPS on national police day
Michael Kgobe, the interim Group CEO of Denel, believes the annual commemoration of National Police Day on 27 January is an opportunity to highlight...
SAPS Commissioner hosts his Namibian counterpart to share expertise, insights
The National Police Commissioner, General Fannie Masemola, last week hosted the Commissioner of the Angola National Police, General Arnaldo Manuel Carlos, on a seven-day...
Is SAPS Crime Intelligence turning the corner?
Media headlines and social media have in recent months and days been trumpeting major Police, Crime Intelligence (CI) and Asset Forfeiture Unit successes across...
10 000 new SA police officers to boost festive season safety...
Police Minister Bheki Cele has assured South Africa that it will be all hands on deck by law enforcement officials this festive season, to...
South Africa’s police are losing the war on crime – here’s...
South Africa’s crime statistics for the third quarter of 2023 show that people continue to face a serious problem of violent crime, especially murder...
South Africa getting 30 000 more police officers to bolster fight...
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 destroy drugs worth R800 million in Gauteng operation
The South African Police Service (SAPS) have destroyed drugs worth R800 million during policing operations in Johannesburg, on Thursday.
National Commissioner of the South African...
SAPS claim successes in dealing with criminal syndicates
Police Minister Bheki Cele says the police are pushing back against crime in the country, and flushing out ruthless and greedy organised criminal syndicates.
“The...
SAPS embarks on a recruitment drive
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...
ISS: Elite unit brutality reflects widespread police impunity in SA
The assault on three occupants of a vehicle by Presidential Protection Unit (PPU) security officers assigned to Deputy President Paul Mashatile has sparked widespread...
Eight SAPS VIP protection members served with suspension notices
National Police Commissioner, General Fanie Masemola, has confirmed that eight members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) implicated in the video which shows...
ISS: South Africa does have the means to reduce violence
In May, police minister Beki Cele praised the South African Police Service’ (SAPS) ‘more boots on the ground’ approach to fighting crime. His speech...
Turkish President honours SAPS K9 team for saving lives after earthquake
Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan has honoured the South African Police Service (SAPS) K9 search and rescue team, following the devastating earthquake that engulfed...
Cigarette smuggler arrested at Groblersbrug border
The South African Police Service (SAPS) Commissioner in Limpopo, Lieutenant-General Thembi Hadebe, has applauded members of the Groblersbrug Border Post for their alertness and...
