The recruitment of the trainees whose training will commence between January and February 2026 will be advertised before the ...

CAPE TOWN - The South African Police Service (SAPS) has enough budget for equipping its public order policing unit but is still operating at 50% below the ideal number of members, which becomes a ...

A panel of experts report tasked with looking into policing and ... oversight over the SAPS. Further adding that public order policing should be run as a specialist unit, meaning that crowd ...

"During the State of the Nation Address, I also said that the staffing of the SAPS Public Order Policing unit will be brought to required levels, with appropriate training courses in place. "This was ...

As part of efforts to stamp the authority of the state, the South African Police Services has unveiled the national Public Order Policing ... “This unit is at the coal face of the communities ...

This monograph assesses the effectiveness of the SAPS Crime Combating Units (CCUs) in order to determine the extent to which ... and the powers accorded to police to manage gatherings. It then moves ...

Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. The SAPS has spent more than half a billion rand to better equip police officers responding ...

“POP units should fall under one command at a national level so they all form part of the national public order policing unit that is provided for in section 17 of the SAPS Act (No 68 of 1995).