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MUNICIPAL POLICE: NEW CROWD MANAGEMENT & ARREST STANDARDS GAZETTED
- 20 June 2025
- Safety and Security
- SA Legal Academy
The Department of Police has gazetted two sets of municipal policing standards with implications for:
- crowd management during gatherings and demonstrations, and
- arrest (including the treatment of arrested persons before being handed over to a community service centre commander).
Released in draft form in May 2024 for public comment, the new standards repeal all previous iterations.
Among other things, the crowd management standards deal with:
- pro-active conflict resolution in potentially violent and disorderly situations
- normalising an area following the use of force, and
- safety at sports and recreational events.
The arrest standards include:
- securing the attendance of an accused at a trial by means other than arrest
- the arrest of a respondent in an incident of domestic violence
- circumstances in which the use of force and/or restraint becomes necessary, and how this should be exercised, and
- presumption of innocence.
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Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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