Browsing Faculty of Law by Subject "South African Police Service"

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    • Failing to discipline in SAPS - Fostering a culture of impunity 

      Africa Criminal Justice Reform (Dullah Omar Institute, 2019)
      It is with unfortunate regularity that we read reports in the media about corrupt South African Police Service (SAPS) officials and officials implicated in other crimes, including human rights violations. Indicative of ...

    • Going the extra mile: police training on domestic violence 

      Combrinck, Helene; Wakefield, Lorenzo (Institute for Security Studies, 2010)
      As anticipated by the drafters of the Domestic Violence Act (DVA), the South African Police Service holds the key to the successful implementation of the Act. Over the past ten years, researchers and independent bodies ...

    • Making sense of the numbers: Civil claims against the SAPS 

      Dereymaeker, Gwen (South African Crime Quarterly, 2015)
      In recent years reports have increasingly pointed to the mounting quantum of claims for civil damages faced by the South African Police Service (SAPS). A close analysis of the publicly available data shows that increasingly ...

    • Modest beginnings, high hopes: The Western Cape Police Ombudsman 

      Muntingh, Lukas (South African Crime Quarterly, 2018)
      In 2013 the Western Cape legislature passed the Western Cape Community Safety Act (WCCSA) to improve monitoring of and oversight over the police. One creation of the WCCSA is the Western Cape Police Ombudsman, which became ...

    • Unconscionable and irrational: SAPS human resource allocation 

      Redpath, Jean; Nagia-Luddy, Fairouz (South African Crime Quarterly, 2015)
      The Khayelitsha Commission revealed that areas that are predominantly populated by people who are poor and black are systematically allocated only a small fraction of the average per capita allocation of police personnel ...

    • Understanding impunity in the South African law enforcement agencies 

      Muntingh, Lukas; Dereymaeker, Gwenaëlle (Dullah Omar Institute, 2013)
      This paper analyses the underlying structural and functional reasons for de facto impunity in South African law enforcement with specific reference to the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Department of Correctional ...