Police

Questions Over ‘Foreign Dominated’ Areas Come after Chaos in Hillbrow

On Sunday Hillbrow was pandemonium after Metro Police officer raided the inner-city region for counterfeit goods from vendors and stalls. Gauteng police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said officers from the SA Police Service (SA...

Neo Sithole·almost 5 years ago

Crime has reached a crisis point and requires concerted efforts from Police and civil Society

'The increase of 11 per cent in sexual offences, 13 per cent in murder and 34 per cent in attempted sexual offences is worrying and points to a failure to deal with these categories of crime'

Parliamentary Press·over 1 year ago

Why disbanding the notorious anti-robbery squad won’t stop bad policing in Nigeria

A wave of protests has spread through Nigeria as citizens call for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigeria police. This followed footage that went viral of the squad beating a man to death. Protesters too...

Lanre Ikuteyijo ·over 3 years ago

South Africa’s police are losing the war on crime – here’s how they need to rethink their approach

The problem is that the implementation of strategy is in limbo. No government agency has been willing to take responsibility for it. That’s because there is no direct budgetary allocation, given the highly constrained government purse.

Guy Lamb - Criminologist / Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University·5 months ago

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