ANA reports that AfriForum on Monday successfully compelled the SA Police Service (SAPS) to send police reservists bound to the Kameeldrift police station for their annual competency training.  

The lobby group brought an application in the High Court in Pretoria to compel the SAPS to ensure that reservists in Kameeldrift completed their competency training, including firearm and ammunition control exercises.  AfriForum reported that the SAPS had refused to grant reservists competency exercises on the grounds that it did not possess the manpower and capacity.  SAPS did not oppose AfriForum’s application.  Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s Head of Community Safety, commented: “AfriForum brought this application and believes that it is of national importance, as the number of police reservists has decreased nationally by more than 80% between 2010 and 2018.  This means that a loss of more than 60,000 people are at the police’s disposal to help combat crime.  It is a great victory for us to turn this statistic around, especially in the Kameeldrift area – which has been plagued by a wave of crime lately – that mainly included farm attacks.”

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