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TimesLIVE reports that according to the parliamentary portfolio committee on police, the SA Police Service (Saps) wisas endangering the lives of its employees.
This was by allowing its workers of the Central Firearm Register (CFR) to continue working in the Veritas building, which did not meet all the safety requirements. This was one of the issues the committee uncovered when it embarked on an oversight visit to the Tshwane premises on Saturday. The committee's visit was aimed specifically at checking on the police’s DNA laboratory and firearms control register. “The committee was shocked to hear that the CFR continues to occupy the Veritas building despite it being disqualified by the safety, health and environment unit. The committee said it was unacceptable for SAPS to allow officials to continue working in an unsafe environment, and committed SAPS to prioritise the matter and engage with the department of public works to have the matter resolved,” the committee’s acting chairperson Kebby Maphatsoe indicated in a statement. The use of this building has been questionable for some time. Five years after buying the Telkom Towers in Pretoria as the new headquarters of the SAPS, the police have yet to occupy the building. Instead, police staff and senior managers are stuck at the old, “completely overloaded” and “condemned” buildings of Veritas and Wachthuis in the Pretoria city centre.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Naledi Shange at TimesLIVE
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