Popcru says police cannot tackle the ‘impossible burden’ of SA’s crime
The union representing the majority of the country’s police officers has described tackling the crime in SA as an "impossible burden". Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru), in the wake of the release of the annual crime statistics on Tuesday, said that there simply aren’t enough resources to protect the country’s citizens."Considering that the South African Police Service (SAPS) is constituted by 191‚000 police officials‚ a significant part of which are office-based within the bloated national and provincial managerial offices‚ who have to keep a growing population of 57-million safe‚ it has become an impossible burden to tackle the challenge of crime accordingly‚" said spokesperson Richard Mamabolo.He said that police officers are strained and stressed – and that morale is low. "As much as the national police commissioner promises to increase the number of trainees to 7‚000 per year‚ we know very well that senior government officials have recently been flirting with the i...
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