Police who refuse to comply with internal directive may be held personally liable.
, the police commissioner has sent out fresh, detailed guidelines on how South African Police Service and municipal police must conduct themselves. It directs that “there can simply be no justification for torture, ever”.caution against “serious and humiliating rights infringements” by arresting and detaining people for lockdown breaches where their attendance at courts can be done through summons or other less intrusive means.
“We are putting together a comprehensive report [for the court]. We will respond to the court, not to the media,” he said. It instructs relief commanders to “strongly caution” members continuously and during each parade against the use of violence and objectionable language and inculcate in them the value of loyalty, sobriety and having an even temper.
The law only empowers members to use force in certain limited circumstances and it envisages that no force will normally be required.
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