It has taken three years for the police officers apparently involved in the death of Regan Naidoo to be arrested, and it will be many more years before the matter goes to trial and is finalised.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s 2020/21 annual report indicates that there were 217 deaths in police custody and 353 as a result of police action in the last year alone.
Naidoo’s family are fortunate that the matter has gone to court; the families of many other victims of police brutality are not so lucky. The hearing was conducted behind closed doors, as is the current policy, with even Ipid, which investigated the matter and recommended the action against the officer, being excluded.
The policy has to change. There has to be oversight of police disciplinary action by an independent body; perhaps Ipid’s role should be expanded beyond investigating police misconduct to include holding disciplinary hearings.
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