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News24 reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has expressed concern over the increasing number of police officers being killed, saying it was tired of burying colleagues and attending annual memorial services.
The union expressed its concern during a two-day central executive committee (CEC) meeting held on Thursday and Friday under the theme "30 years of Working-Class Consciousness, Defending Workers Rights and Building a Self-Sustainable Union". According to the union, a concrete plan and measures were needed to ensure the men and women in blue were protected. "As it stands, there are high possibilities that a police station is being attacked or an officer is losing their life at the hands of criminal elements daily," the union indicated in a statement on Saturday. Popcru further said there was a need to urgently formulate a "protective and preventative strategy that included an inclusive approach". Besides police killings, the union also raised several other points such as Covid-19 vaccination, collective bargaining and state capture. According to Popcru, widows of deceased police officers found it hard to survive after losing their partners as the death allowances did not cover their essential needs. The union also lamented the "meagre" danger allowance officers received.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Canny Maphanga at News24
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