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The Star reports that last month at the Safety and Security Sectoral Bargaining Council (SSSBC), the SA Police Service (SAPS) was found to have “humiliated” six Pretoria major-generals by removing them as cluster commanders of several police stations to become mere “overseers” of individual stations.
This has been described as “a recipe for disaster” in police leadership. Major-generals Anna Mateisi, Masego Botshelong, Nicholas Sithole, Girly Mbele, Pooblan Subbiah and Ketlareng Mohajane were each awarded R25,000 by the SSSBC for being unfairly demoted. This related to a restructuring programme the SAPS embarked on in February last year to deploy senior police managers to local stations to address crime experienced by communities. But, the SSSBC arbitrator found this process to have been flawed because the six wronged senior officers went from being cluster commanders to being station overseers and were “stripped of all command and control”. “The major-generals suffered the humiliation of arriving at stations without knowing who to report to and without having office space and/or any personnel assigned to them,” he noted. The arbitrator added that this constituted an unfair labour practice because the SAPS and national commissioner General Khehla Sitole demoted the officers without consulting them on the process, and announced the changes to the media before the major-generals were informed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khaya Koko at Independent News
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