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31 Team work and the taste of success… the SAPS in Mozambique geographical and functional areas in several parts of the country, including metropolitan and rural police stations and specialist units. • In November 1997, history was made when the converted SAPS Star of Outstanding Service was presented to a woman for the first time. Assistant Commissioner Magda Stander, Head: Personnel Services, received the medal along with 70 police commissioners at a parade that was held at the SAPS Training College in Pretoria. • In June 1997, a management training programme was presented and sponsored by the Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Management in cooperation with the Danish government. As part of the programme, an extensive course on managerial techniques was presented to police officials from across the country. • In October 1997, South Africa’s first Detective Academy was opened in Silverton, Pretoria. The academy offered training for 90 students and the first intake included two participants each from the police agencies of Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
1998 10 Years of Policing in a Democracy 1995 – 2005 32 • In March 1998, the first 18, locally-trained polygraph system operators - nine police officials and nine SANDF members - graduated from the Detective Academy in Silverton, Pretoria. The course, presented by the US Argenbright International Institute of Polygraphy, was the first of its kind to be presented locally. • Project Johannesburg was launched in April 1998 to develop a new style of policing that was less bureaucratic, more cost-effective and community friendly, with an enhanced capacity to fight crime. Encompassing 20 police stations in the Johannesburg police area, between R30 and R35 million was allocated to the project out of the SAPS budget. • In April 1998, a plan to reconstruct the SAPS was presented to Parliament’s Safety and Security Portfolio Committee. The plan included - - delivering professional “customer service” by improving the public image of the police, as well as improving the discipline, morale and investigative techniques of the police; - recruiting civilian employees and permanent members to alleviate the heavy caseload of police officials; and - establishing crime information centres to form a ground-level database and creating crime-prevention and reaction units. • In June 1998, it was announced that the SAPS would take in new recruits over the following five years. A total of 1 200 recruits were enlisted in the SAPS in a rolling intake process during which 300 recruits were enlisted at a time. • More than 2 000 stolen vehicles, worth R9 million, were seized during a cross-border operation involving police officials from South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho and Mauritius in June 1998. • Owing to ongoing violence in the Richmond area in KwaZulu-Natal, an operation called PAX II was launched in July 1998. It was a joint operation between the SAPS and the SANDF, which improved stability in the region. • In August 1998, three members of the FBI and a member of the Department of Justice attended one-day workshops where detectives taught them techniques of neutralizing criminal enterprises. Five top forensic scientists of the FBI Forensic Science Laboratory’s Trace Evidence Unit in Washington presented a two-week training course at the National Forensic Science Laboratory in Pretoria. The course was the first presented by the FBI in Africa. • In September 1998, the Detective Academy officially launched the first Generic Serious and Violent Crime pilot training programme. Thirty-one provincial heads of Serious and Violent Crime units, as well as managers from different specialized police units, attended the course. Training focused on the fields of murder and robbery, vehicle hijacking, taxi and gang violence, serial killings and illegal firearms. Subjects such as major case management, sophisticated investigative techniques and partnerships with the community were also dealt with. • In September 1998, the SAPS launched a R40-million project aimed at dealing with the escalating incidence of suicide and violence in the service. The project, known as the National Suicide Prevention Project, concentrated on researching, managing and preventing further losses of human lives. • A manual entitled Human Rights and Policing introduced police officials to the Constitution and to the principles underlying human rights. Management and leadership development programmes in the service included the Learning Intervention of Supervisors through the Operational Management Programme for Officers, the Station Management Programme (presented by the Joint Universities Public Management Education Trust with funding from the South African Management Development Institute), the Middle Management Programme and the Leadership Development Programme. • The Emerging Leadership Programme (ELP) was presented by the Kagiso Leadership School and was funded by the European Union.
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