Western Cape MEC of
Community Safety, Dan Plato, has welcomed the South African Police’s new
recruitment strategy. National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega said changes
included community consultation, publishing of names for public scrutiny and a
grooming camp.
MEC Plato said
increased consultations and co-operation with the community and organisations
such as the Community Policing Forums will go far to assist the police in their
operational functioning.
Ministerial
spokesperson, Ewald Botha added the new strategy is implemented to ensure
people of the Western Cape have complete faith in every single serving member
of the South African Police Service.
In addition,
policing authorities would have to answer to the number of serving members of
the police force with criminal records, and the nature of their charges.
Botha took an
unequivocal stance that SAPS should lead by example, serve as ambassadors of
the uniform and be beyond reproach.
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