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Leadership integrity and the crisis in South Africa’s policing Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the '&' symbol, click Advanced Search and use the 'search headings' and/or 'in first paragraph' options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by The South African Police Service (SAPS) is in crisis – ‘finish and klaar.’ The quoted words were infamously used by Jackie Selebi, the longest-serving post-apartheid SAPS national commissi...

Theodore Petrus Share A member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) stands guard in the street at a vehicle checkpoint in Parklands to enforce the lockdown regulations. (Roger Sedres/Gallo Images) Corruption and criminality in the highest ranks of the police, whether proven or alleged, have serious consequences, both of which seriously impact on the safety and security of South African citizens, writes  Theodore Petrus. If the latest crime stats issued by the Ministry of Police are anything to go by, it should be clear to most...

Vearey vows to fight alongside Jacobs ’till last drop of blood’ ahead of Labour Court hearing By IOL Reporter Share Cape Town – ’’Whatever our skirmish in the Labour Court brings today, we remain bound in blood and fighting spirit. Till the last drop of blood.’’ This was posted on Facebook on Wednesday by Western Cape deputy police commissioner Major-General Jeremy Vearey, who had acted as a staff representative of his close ally, former Crime Intelligence boss Peter Jacobs, at a disciplinary hearing last week. The disciplinary process had been halted by an ...

The night of the long knives at the police’s Crime Intelligence division has seen its embattled commander, Peter Jacobs, summarily demoted and shifted out of his post by top cop Khehla Sitole.

Instead, National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole, in a letter to Jacobs, which Daily Maverick has seen, told him: “You are hereby instructed to assume duty at Division Inspectorate, immediately. “Kindly note that your placement into the post for the Divisional Commissioner: Inspectorate is being affected (sic) in the interest of the Service and, for service delivery requirements.” It is not clear how long this will be in effect, and it is understood Jacobs may challenge the decision. Some police officers see the move as an effective demotion. The police’s 2019/20 annual report say...