Name and shame roque cops
Christel Raubenheimer and Liezel de Lange, Beeld
Pretoria - There is no police station in the country where there are no resources (such as cars) or people, says Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
He was talking during an information session on Tuesday in Pretoria about the government's plans to combat crime.
He conceded there were sometimes cases where police officers said they could not respond to people's complaints because they did not have transport.
He added that the devolution of expertise would improve administration, such as the effective use of resources and also improve crime investigations at police stations.
Radar system to track vehicles
Nqakula said there already were several programmes to improve the police's service delivery.
One of these was a radar system which determined the position of police vehicles.
In this way, one could determine where a police vehicle was or why it stopped for a certain time at a place to prevent crime.
A pilot project had been launched in Cape Town and policing in the area had shown a tremendous improvement, said Nqakula.
The programme would be extended later to the rest of the country.
Deputy minister of justice Johnny de Lange appealed at the same information session to the public to report the names of public servants such as police officers who did not do their work so that they could be brought to book.
Photograph the guilty
He even suggested that people should take their cameras and photograph officials who did not do their work, so that proper investigation could be done into their conduct.
"They wear their names (on their uniforms). Get them. Help us get rid of the bad apples, if there are any," said De Lange.
He said it was useless for people to complain about poor service delivery if they "generalised" and did not name the guilty people.
News source: www.news24.co.za
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