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Amid calls for leadership reform within the South African Police Service , an internal survey by its research division shows more than 65% of police officers are not “looking forward to going to work when they wake up in the morning”. Saps research division’s Brigadier Kobus Schwartz, section head, specialised and tactical research, said 1 600 members had taken part in the survey and while 71% of participants believed they excelled at their jobs, 60.
“This comes with 51.7% of police officers saying they do not have adequate resources to perform their daily duties,” he said. He said: “We need to be careful of underlying issues within the Saps. With more than 61.63% of the respondents thinking Saps was not winning the war against crime, it was demoralising many officers because it seemed their efforts meant nothing.”Schwartz said these issues were coupled with 54.49% saying they were dissatisfied with their salaries and at least 51.30% were not achieving what they had wanted to achieve at their age. A total of 50.88% disagreed that Saps cared about their well-being.
Following a crescendo of calls for Police Minister Bheki Cele to be fired – which included those coming from the Democratic Alliance’s #CeleMustGo campaign and Action Society, Lancaster said it was hard to “divorce Cele from politics, which was one of the reasons for the Saps crisis”. The report revealed 712 Saps-owned firearms had been reported lost or stolen in 2021-22 “due to the escalation of crime against members, including, but not limited to robbery in townships, housebreaking, theft from dwellings, as well as negligence by members”, the report stated. Only 508 were allowed for.
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