Loyiso Langeni
15 August 2013
The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday
said the South African Police Service criminality audit reveals serious
mismanagement.
This is after the SAPS revealed that
none of the police officers found to have criminal records during the recently
completed criminality audit have been fired.
DA MP of Police Dianne Kohler
Barnard said this audit has shown that the lack of vetting of personnel, proper
disciplinary systems and recordkeeping between different provinces and stations
are all factors which have allowed criminals to work for the police.
Kohler Barnard added that this is
purely the fault of SAPS management. No answers were forthcoming about when the
SAPS stopped checking for criminal records for new entrants, or when station
managers stopped reporting criminal activities on the part of their members.
“It is past time that the SAPS
management took speedy and decisive concrete action to clean up and stop
allowing criminality within our police service,” Kohler Barnard.
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