LOCAL The South African Policing Union (Sapu) says utterances by Police Minister Bheki Cele that officers will not be granted leave during this festive season are an act of provocation. Cele made the statement during the launch of the #SaferFestiveSeason Campaign in Thohoyandou, Limpopo last week that from 15 December 2022 to[…]
LOCAL Western Cape law enforcement officials who lost their lives in the line of duty this past year will be honoured with a wreath-laying ceremony in Cape Town on Monday. The provincial Mobility Minister, Daylin Mitchell, says relatives of some of the fallen heroes will join him in paying tribute[…]
Following the engagement hosted last month by the Muslim Judicial Council SA (MJC) alongside interfaith communities and official stakeholders on the state of safety and security in the Western Cape, the MJC SA has published an expansive response from those cited in the memorandum of demands during the session. National[…]
Civic organisation, Action Society South Africa, says police lack the will to tackle organised crime. This as South Africa is ranked 19th in the world for the penetration of organised crime, according to the recently released Global Organised Crime Index. It has revealed that major corruption is associated with the[…]
Cape Town Mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis, has welcomed a police undertaking to remove barbed wire around Government Avenue in the Mother City. The South African Police Service (SAPS) has decided to take it down following requests from Hill-Lewis who described it as an unlawful obstruction for the public wanting to access[…]
LOCAL President Cyril Ramaphosa says the South African Police Service commemoration day event should mobilise society to become part of the fight against crime in South Africa. In paying tribute to the 33 police officers who have passed away in the last year, at the commemoration event at the Union[…]
LOCAL Police are investigating cases of attempted murder after two constables came under fire in Khayelitsha on Friday night. Spokesperson Capt FC Van Wyk says the officers were shot and wounded while en route home in their marked police vehicle at the time. The shooting occurred on the corners of[…]
Cape Town police say they their crime prevention operations in the city have yielded positive results across the city. Police spokesperson, Wesley Twigg, says the Anti-Gang Unit, deployed in the Ocean View and Gugulethu areas, arrested four people after they were found in possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition. He[…]
LOCAL The Western Cape has reported a high number of gender-based violence cases that are being thrown out of court as a result of dockets going missing. Statistics from the quarterly report of the Department of Community Safety’s Court Watching Brief team shows that just short of 200 criminal cases[…]
Western Cape police have made a number of arrests in the past few days with charges ranging from unlawful possession of firearms to organised crime. According to W/O Joseph Swartbooi, Atlantis police on Thursday participated in an integrated operation. “The members responded to information and approached and searched an identified[…]
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