Cops behaving badly cost SAPS millions
The bad behaviour of Eastern Cape police officials has cost the department more than R48m in the last financial year — and the staggering amount is just the tip of the iceberg.
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The bad behaviour of Eastern Cape police officials has cost the department more than R48m in the last financial year — and the staggering amount is just the tip of the iceberg.
Today at six: a hard—hitting report accuses the met of a form of institutional corruption over an unsolved murder case. daniel morgan, a private investigator, was murdered in 1987. a panel has been looking at why no one has been brought to book in all this time. we believe that concealing or the denying failings for the sake of an organisation's public image is dishonesty. this constitutes a form of institutional corruption. morgan was killed outside this pub in south—east london — his family believe he was on the brink of exposing police wrongdoing. we theaux there was corruption in
Don't trust leadership, they are concerned with what leadership tells them. is there a way do you think that there could be a meeting in the middle here for people to feel that their voices are being heard despite the risks that they are seeing there in the streets? >> i can understand people are very angry and they have already expressed some demands. for example, they would demand a sort of investigation into the police conduct. but what i would assure you is right now we have a mechanism in hong kong to conduct a sort of a thorough investigation into police wrongdoing which is called the ib...
Involving allegations of police wrongdoing. police did not admit fault in the cases. a department spokesman also says within the past two years the department has been working to mepd the relationship with the community, partly by instituting new police training guidelines and policies pointing to what it says is a 50% reduction in excessive force complaints since 2012. >> none of that though helps if people don't feel it. with this investigation we've made a commitment to be as open and transparent as we can be. >> but is it enough? the city's mayor says more needs to be done. >> we have to m...