The South African Police Service national crime reporting computer system has been experiencing glitches. It was reportedly offline last weekend and has been on and off since.
A man reported a theft to Sea Point police station. It took a week for him to receive a case number and for a detective to be assigned to the case.Even if the system is down, this should not delay the investigation of a crime, a police officer said.
The ICDMS, which is set to ultimately replace CAS, generates eDockets which are predominantly used by detectives. According to the government news website:"eDocket allows for an integrated method of monitoring police documents, dockets and the storage thereof. This will ultimately reduce the chances of dockets going missing or being tampered with."
A police officer confirmed to GroundUp that there was a system issue, and that the system was on and off, but there was no reason why it should affect the work of the police. "This is just a classic case of laziness from the police. There is always a solution to every problem."
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