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Masemola Summons: Purging Top SAPS Brass Is the Only Path to Restoring Public Confidence

For the past six months, the nation has watched the Madlanga Commission picking apart the integrity of the suspended Police Minister and a swathe of the top police brass.

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GOOD Statement by Brett Herron, Unite for Change Leadership Council Member & GOOD Secretary-General:

For the past six months, the nation has watched the Madlanga Commission picking apart the integrity of the suspended Police Minister and a swathe of the top police brass.

The news that National Commissioner of Police, Fannie Masemola, was served with a notice to appear in court today and will join 12 of his senior officers in the dock next month in connection with a cancelled R360m police health tender is a major setback for crime fighting and public confidence.

It is assumed that the Commissioner will be placed on suspension, joining a number of already suspended officers, the suspended Police Minister and the suspended Intelligence Inspector-General on the sidelines.

The President and Acting Police Minister cannot wait for the slow-turning wheels of justice to turn, while the country continues to suffer radical rates of violent crime and gangsterism, and continuing state corruption.

There’s an urgent need for a new top layer in the police. Serious consideration should be given to appointing a panel of experts of unimpeachable character (including criminologists, former prosecutors and police) to oversee the purging of the rot and development of a trustworthy top structure of untainted and un-factional police officers.

In the meantime, the National Prosecuting Authority and IDAC have critical roles to demonstrate that there are consequences for criminal policemen and women.

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