SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICES: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT NATIONAL POLICY

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICES: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT NATIONAL POLICY

• 27 October 2023
• Safety and Security
• SA Legal Academy

The Civilian Secretariat for Police Services has gazetted a notice calling for input by 24 November 2023 on a draft national policing policy.

Noting the ‘number of important reforms put in place over the years’ and the ‘significant progress’ already made in ‘transforming policing in South Africa’, the draft policy focuses on ‘consolidation and strengthening’ what has been accomplished. This is according to an overview included in the Government Gazette notice, which also lists the ‘key challenges hampering effective policing’.

Explored in the draft policy, they include:

• ‘low levels of public trust’
• ‘low employee morale’
• ‘negligence and ill-discipline’ on the part of police officers, and
• ‘barriers’ to reporting crime.

The overview attributes several of these challenges to the ‘criminality and corruption’ occurring ‘even at the highest echelon of the SAPS’ and creating ‘leadership instability’.

• draft policy
• Government Gazette notice

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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