Young police recruits may unknowingly find themselves living with dangerous criminals for the first few months of their employment due to one major oversight in the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) relocation practices: any officer can be assigned to any region in SA at any time.
Eastern Cape citizens are claiming R7.5bn from the police for incidents of misconduct like illegal search and seizures, assault, car accidents and shootings.This was revealed by transport & community safety MEC Xolile Nqatha in response to a question by DA MPL Bobby Stevensen about claims against the police.
In a week that saw 10,000 additional boots hit the ground nationwide to bolster the SA Police Service, police in the Eastern and Western Cape are reportedly still grappling not just with staff shortages, but also a dwindling ammunition stockpile.