The gazetted new draft regulations for public comment by the civilian secretariat, aimed at establishing a new council, regulator, and a host of new functions for the minister of police to protect the country’s critical infrastructure, is welcomed. However, any attempt to add more responsibility on the SAPS to deploy its resources to these environments,…
Ipusa is enormously concerned about the sorry state of our 10111s, this emanates from an incident in Gauteng 10111 on Friday the 28th of July where there was a gas smoke caused by a cracked pipe while a technician was busy filling up gas for the Air conditioners. What is of major concern to Ipusa…
When Panyaza Lesufi took over as the premier 6 months ago, he spoke with passion, how he intends to fight crime, lawlessness, and vandalism in the province. He told the Gauteng community that this is going to be the apex priority of the province. He spoke first of increasing the crime fighting budget to billions…
National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola, does not have security clearance. Minister Bheki Cele confirmed that this weekend. He told our reporter, Lethiwe Mdlulu, yesterday they are expediting the process. For more on this is Mpho Kwinika, from police union IPUSA. Source: eNCA
Cape Town police are investigating two incidents in which officers came under attack and people suspected of crime evaded arrest. Mpho Kwinika, general secretary for the Independent Policing Union of South Africa, spoke with eNCA’s Gareth Edwards about the situation in the city. Courtesy of #DStv403
From left: Former minister of police Fikile Mbalula. (Photo: Gallo Images / Sharon Seretlo) National Commissioner of Police Khehla Sitole. (Photo: Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Jaco Marais) By Marianne Thamm Follow SAPS National Commissioner Khehla Sitole’s application to the Constitutional Court provides deeper insights into key roleplayers in the alleged R45-million ANC ‘Nasrec Grabber’ vote-buying procurement…
National Police Commissioner General Khehla Sithole released a statement in which he denied that he had tried to stop the investigation into the death of the anti-gang unit head Charl Kinnear. The Daily Maverick reported this week that the Independent Police Investigative Directorate had now opened a criminal case against Sithole because he has refused…
The SAPS identified 147 of its own officers as alleged perpetrators of domestic violence in the six months between April and September 2021 and 75 of them lost their service pistols as a result. Another 73 police officers across 50 police stations were identified as victims of domestic violence during the same period. This was…
IPUSA leadership wants to take this opportunity and thank you, our members, for being patient with us. Many of you phoned us wanting to know when is the Union going to deduct membership fees. Your request has been answered. IPUSA have launched its first stop order deductions as a test run, which will reflect on…
Today marks exactly 1 year since IPUSA was formed and established. Many never thought that we would get here. Happiest 1st birthday to IPUSA!! You, our members, remain our interest to this day!! The road has not been easy to get here, but at the same time, no one said it was going to be…
