“Die verslag van die SA Instituut vir Rasseverhoudinge (SAIRV) oor geweldsmisdaad en kriminaliteit in die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens bevestig dat die publiek nie vertroue in die Polisie kan hê nie. Dit is ironies dat die Polisie as sy hoofdoelwit stel dat die publiek beskerm moet word…
Pretoria – A suspect was fatally wounded during a shoot-out between the police and three suspects, who had robbed employees of a security company who were collecting money from a grocery store in Nongoma on Monday morning. Three men allegedly disarmed the security officer who…
Soweto: 22 January 2015 - Tonight the Gauteng Police Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Lesetja Mothiba announced further deployment of a large contingent of police officers in various areas of Soweto. After a relatively quiet day in Soweto, looting flared up in most parts of the…
Pretoria: Today, the acting National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks), Major General Mthandazo Ntlemeza, lauded the Hawks in Johannesburg for dismantling a Nigerian drug-smuggling ring. The Hawks team raided the Highrise flats in Berea, Johannesburg yesterday. They did a thorough…
Volgens die Onafhanklike Polisie Ondersoekdirektoraat (OPOD) het die aantal klagtes van verkragtings wat deur polisielede gepleeg is in ses maande (April - September 2014 teenoor dieselfde tydperk in 2013) met 25% toegeneem en verkragtings van persone in aanhouding het met 160% toegeneem. Die OPOD het…
Limpopo: Yesterday, the Louis Trichardt Regional Court in Limpopo handed down a hefty seven-year sentence to former Detective Constable Tshifhiwa Lawrence Matsedu of Musina for corruption. The disciplinary hearing committee of the South African Police Service dismissed 28-year-old Matsedu a few months after corruption allegations…
The IFP in KwaZulu-Natal is shocked by the actions of a mob of community members at Copesville in Pietermaritzburg where two men suspected of housebreaking were attacked and burnt to death. "We do not condone vigilantism and would urge people to work with the police…
Pretoria: Today, the Acting National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, Major General Yoliswa Siyotula, applauded the Organised Crime Unit of the Hawks in Mpumalanga for securing two convictions against two rhino poachers. Yesterday, the White River Periodical Court handed down an eight-year…
Pretoria - The South African Police Service (SAPS) today released the crime statistics for the 2013/14 financial year, which show a range of increases and decreases in certain crime categories. For the year under review, there was an increase in murder, attempted murder and robbery…
PRETORIA - On 12 September 2014, the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) of the NPA obtained an order in the North Gauteng High Court freezing a cash amount of US$9.34 million (about R102 million). The case relates to cash which was brought into the country on…