POLICE CORRUPTION
SAPS can be effective only if Cele is replaced by an honest technocrat
Our national police commissioner, Gen Khehla Sithole, is an optimistic leader if he genuinely believes it is possible, or even feasible, to expect that the thoroughly slug-like police service he leads is capable of being transformed into a butterfly. Yet, this is the analogy he used when trying to soften the blow to public confidence in him and those he leads to perform the very basic functions of preventing and combating crime, so as to keep people safe and secure in a society in which respect for human dignity holds pride of place. An average of 57 murders a day is terrifying, not dignified. The constitutional aims of promoting the achievement of equality and of enjoying the human rights guaranteed to all in the bill of rights, through proper service delivery, are not going to be achieved if the "same old, same old" approach is going to continue in the hope of some pupae and then butterflies emerging. The SA Police Service (SAPS) completely lost its way during the Zuma era. That i...
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