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Concerns are growing in South Africa that new laws on intelligence, security and graft-busting may end up protecting the political elite more than the nation.
If it was not already clear why a dedicated anti-corruption agency capable of tackling powerfully connected people had to be independent of the South African Police Service (SAPS), the recent, and...
Does hiring more police officers result in less crime? Or does more crime result in more police officers? The reasoning behind the first statement has guided South African policy makers for the...
Should the police be more trustworthy than any other citizen? And if they are not, can you hold the Minister of Police to account? In an important unanimous judgement penned by South African Chief...
In January 2012, four senior commissioned officers from the South African Police Service (SAPS) will appear in court on charges of defeating the ends of justice after they were recently arrested...
The sense of optimism was palpable at the Sheraton Hotel in Pretoria when South Africa’s National Minister of Police released the official police crime statistics for the 2010/2011 financial...
Creamer Media’s Polity speaks to Gareth Newham, head of the Crime and Justice Programme at the Institute for Security Studies, about the latest crime statistics in South Africa.
"Crime in South Africa keeps going down, for which the police and many communities deserve some credit. But what the statistics don't reveal is the grim reality of many serious and often hidden...