Cape Forum, a civil society organisation linked to AfriForum, has appealed to the Constitutional Court to restructure policing powers in an effort to give direct control of policing to the Western Cape:
. The forum argues that current policing models are no longer effective in keeping residents safe.
‘The allocation of police resources from the national level to the province, such as the number of members deployed at police stations, also plays a role,’ says Wyngaard. ‘Together with this, it is problematic for Cape Forum that appointments in senior positions are made with candidates who are less qualified than local candidates or who do not speak the majority language of the province.
A few years ago, the Western Cape Government launched the Western Cape Safety Plan in response to SAPS’ inability to fight crime. ‘We have and continue to advocate and lobby for the devolution of policing powers to capable provincial governments, such as the Western Cape Government,’ says Reagan Allen, Western Cape Minister of Police Oversight and Community Safety. ‘We recognise that not all provincial governments might be capable of managing their own police services.
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