Private security guards contracted by universities during FeesMustFall protests acted illegally by conducting crowd control operations, PSiRA has implied in a revealing report.
Johannesburg - Private security guards contracted by universities during #FeesMustFall protests acted illegally by conducting crowd control operations, the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority has implied in a revealing report.
But the private guards conducted several crowd control operations during the student protests that hit the country’s universities in 2015 and 2016. “Although the mandate of crowd control falls squarely on the shoulders of the South African Police Service , there were elements of crowd control that private security providers inadvertently provided during the protests,” said the report.
“The main concern for SAPS is to ensure that crowd control is done within the bounds of the law by POPs as opposed to private security officers, whose companies are in the main defined by profit.” “Although a private security officer may possess this skill, he or she is not legally mandated to execute such a directive.”
Campuses continue to experience protests beyond #FeesMustFall and it appears private still embark on crowd control operations.
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