#General Secretary of #IPUSA #Mpho Kwinika was on ENCA talking about proactive policing and vigilante attacks

By Marianne Thamm (Source: Daily Maverick) First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. At least R200-million was spent procuring emergency PPE equipment from four SA companies, which appear to be brokers rather than suppliers or manufacturers and which do not appear on the SAPS  supplier’s database. Two top cops assigned by Police Commissioner…

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…

Police visibility continue to result in desired outcomes in the Nyanga policing precinct. Three firearms and rounds of ammunition were confiscated and suspects arrested during operations conducted in the area of Browns Farm Two suspects aged 23 are due in Athlone Magistrates’ Court today following their arrest on Sunday morning. The two were arrested on…

The Independent Policing Union of South Africa (IPUSA) has called on the immediate suspension of Police General Khehla Sitole, pending the inquiry into his misconduct.“Policing in this country has been paralyzed due to National commissioner’s conduct. Discipline demands that he account to executive authority responsible for policing on behalf of the president,” General secretary Mpho…

The killing of Police officials is a serious and a continuing problem. The brutal killing of Sergeant Sharon Mogale over the weekend, who was disarmed and shot at point blank range in Tembisa, makes it necessary to call for a STOP on police killings, as IPUSA we condemn and rebuke this kind of criminality that is meted out…