Work is clearly being done to improve policing and to also repair the trust between citizens and law enforcement officers.
South Africans have long had a complex, difficult relationship with the police in the country. Much of this is deeply historic. For most of the population, the association of the police with brutality and the apartheid regime is entrenched.
Despite that, there is still a latent respect for cops and there is largely rule of law in the country. If you break the law, you will be arrested and go through the court process. There also seem to be attempts to repair the public relationship with the SAPS, which is a service and not a force. In KZN alone, 17 suspects were killed by police in the past two weeks. Last Friday morning, three criminals were killed in a shootout in uMlazi.
Lt Shadrack Sibiya, the Deputy National Police Commissioner, has been amongst those leading this approach as he has been mandated to deal with CIT gangs. “As far as we are concerned as the SAPS, each and every scene where we get involved in a shootout, you will find that here are a number of AK47s and other assault rifles, heavy rifles.
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