Police spokesperson Vish Naidoo, however, denied claims that officers fired shots at protesters.
Parliament s Portfolio Committee on Police sai
d the country required professional public order policing that displayed a respect for human life and protected those who protested peacefully.
Parliament s portfolio committee on police said it wanted to meet with the leadership of the SA Police Service following reports of a student who was shot and wounded in Johannesburg during student protests this week.
The Wits SRC on Monday alleged a student was shot and wounded by officers. Police spokesperson Vish Naidoo, however, denied claims that officers fired shots at protesters, saying they only used a smoke grenade and water cannons.
The South African Police Service (SAPS) misstated R2.2-billion in network assets in the previous financial year, the Auditor-General has found in a report tabled on 2 March to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police.
The briefing to the audit committee revealed that the SAPS IT environment continued to be chaotic, that compliance with procurement and contract management within SAPS regarding Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) is lax, and that errors in the registration of case dockets on the Crime Administration System (CAS) remained a problem.
The Auditor-General also found that the SAPS had understated the number of “lost, stolen and illegal” firearms and that the number of identifiable stolen/lost SAPS firearms recovered had been “overstated”. Contact crimes against SAPS members had also been understated.
Where are the SAPS victim-friendly rooms?
By Thobeka Ngema
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DURBAN - THE question about where the victim-friendly rooms in police stations are, is a recurring one in Parliament and yesterday was no different.
A number of members of the Parliament Portfolio Committee on Police had asked the SAPS about the lack of victim-friendly rooms for victims of gender-based violence (GBV) in police stations during a meeting yesterday.
According to the police, a victim-friendly room must provide an opportunity for victims of intimate violence such as GBV and child abuse to make their statements in private, in a non-threatening environment.
Parliament commits to help widow of slain detective Charl Kinnear find answers
By Sisonke Mlamla
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Cape Town - Parliament s Portfolio Committee on Police made a commitment to the widow of murdered anti-gang unit senior detective Charl Kinnear, Nicolette Kinnear, that it will seek justice and ensure accountability for the death of her husband.
This after the committee considered a petition from Nicolette on Tuesday, highlighting a number of questions that still need to be addressed.
Committee chairperson Tina Joemat-Pettersson, said Nicolette must be assured that the committee would not leave the matter until they found justice for her and her children.