Five years after Marikana little has changed in public-order police training
MPs are concerned about the length of time it has taken to implement the Farlam Commission’s recommendations
Five years after Marikana‚ the police are still struggling to tick off items on the to-do list of recommendations made by the Farlam Commission to overhaul the way crowds and protests are managed and policed.The commission made a long list of recommendations to ensure police were properly trained and managed in instances of public violence so the mistakes made at Marikana were never repeated.The panel of experts set up to investigate and overhaul public-order policing and the transformation task team appeared before the police portfolio committee on Tuesday during which MPs expressed concern about the long period of time it has taken to implement the commission’s recommendations.Chairperson Francois Beukman questioned why "quick wins" such as first-aid training for all officers were not made a priority. "The biggest concern is the time lapse‚" he said. The commission recommended that all police officers be trained in basic first aid, but Deputy National Police Commissioner for Human...
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