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Cape Argus reports that a planned restructuring of the police force will see a reduction in the number of deputy national police commissioners, the trimming of divisions, and more boots on the ground.
The SA Police Service (SAPS) and the two trade unions, namely the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) and the SA Policing Union (Sapu), have agreed on the restructuring, and said it would be implemented in a fair and impartial manner. National police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe confirmed that a collective agreement was signed between the unions and police management on Monday. Popcru’s Richard Mamabolo said the agreement was a milestone in the intended process of transforming the police from an organ of state that had had a pointless, bloated structure to one that would focus on its core mandate, namely to act against crime where it took place. “This new structure will be downsized from four deputy national commissioners to three, and from 13 divisions to 10, which is the position that Popcru have maintained over the years,” Mamabolo said. Sapu’s Peter Ntsime said that for some time the police had not had a structure that “speaks to the whole organisation” and promoted the development of the police service. “Part of what we did was to take the service back to the people. We need police officers on the ground, not in the offices, to benefit our communities,” he stated. Andrew Faull of the Institute for Security Studies said the development seemed to be “very promising”.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sisonke Mlamla at Cape Argus
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