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Timeslive reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) on Sunday expressed its displeasure at not receiving responses from the department of justice and correctional services and the department of transport concerning its members’ concerns.
On 13 July‚ the union embarked on a national march and presented a number of memorandums to the justice and correctional services department‚ the SA Police Service (SAPS)‚ the health department and the transport department. The departments were given 14 working days to respond. Popcru general secretary Nkosinathi Theledi said they had only received responses from the police and the health department and he expressed disappointed at the department of justice and correctional services and the department of transport for not taking members’ issues seriously. He noted that the SAPS had acknowledged the issue raised and said they would be engaging further on the implementation of a single police service. In its response‚ the police had reflected on‚ among other issues‚ the need for a flatter organisational structure, decentralisation of work and authority to police stations and the availability of specialised skills at police stations. Theledi called on correctional services officers to refuse to transport inmates from maximum security prisons to courts or hospitals if the ratio of correctional officials to inmate was not two to one.
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