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Cape Times reports on integral changes made to the structure of the SA Police Service (SAPS), which will see several officers around the country being referred to by different titles from Tuesday.
The amendments are in accordance with regulations that acting national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Kgomotso Phahlane signed off last week. They include the addition a new rank of regional commissioner and a senior position that in terms of ranking is second in command, alongside other commissioners, to the national commissioner. Several other ranks have fallen away and will be included with others. This includes the rank of major, which will now be referred to as lieutenant-colonel, as well as lieutenants, which will now be called captains. Those who were already lieutenant-colonels and captains will remain the same. Other ranks to remain unchanged are those of major-general, brigadier, colonel, warrant officer, sergeant and constable. Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) spokesperson Richard Mamabolo noted that the amendments had nothing to do with salary changes.
- Read this report by Karishma Dipa in full at Cape Times
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