TimesLive reports that almost three quarters of rank and file police crime intelligence staff do not have security clearance.  

Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Dianne Kohler Barnard advised that this was revealed in a presentation by the SA Police Service (SAPS) Crime Intelligence Division to Parliament’s police portfolio committee on Wednesday.  The committee heard that three SAPS generals were denied security clearance and the clearance of a further 12 has expired; 125 SAPS generals and brigadiers failed to apply for security clearance; the clearance of more than 1‚300 crime intelligence employees had expired‚ while a further 85 were denied clearance; and 6‚130 members had no clearance.  “If police minister Fikile Mbalula does not tackle this crisis head on‚ South Africans will never feel safe in their homes and on the streets‚” Kohler Barnard said in a statement issued on Thursday.

• Read this report TimesLive
• See too, Senior police officers promoted without security clearance, Parliament hears, at News24

Read the DA’s press statement in this regard at DA Newsroom

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