Cop shops (mis)managed
2010-03-18 22:45
Lizel Steenkamp, Beeld
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Cape Town - Station commanders are failing in their most basic duty of exercising control over police officials, dockets, firearms and vehicles.Read more »
Weekly inspections are "generally disregarded" and national orders are ignored. Furthermore, station commanders and other heads have a "serious lack" of skills and knowledge.
These damning findings are compiled in a report about what is happening at 733 of the country's 1 116 police stations by the police's national inspectorate which - between April and December last year - completed countrywide inspections to determine whether station commanders are maintaining discipline and whether police stations are being properly managed.
Bheki Cele, national chief of police, made the report available two weeks ago upon request from the Parliamentary portfolio committee for police.
Investigative work poor
The majority of the inspections were done at police stations in Gauteng (316), Mpumalanga (120) and the Free State (66).
It paints a bleak picture of the day-to-day activities at police stations and the lack of the most basic control and management measures.
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