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• A revised Rural Safety Programme was developed. The crime-prevention strategy in this instance involved a number of rural stakeholders such as women’s groups, traditional leaders, agricultural unions and farm labourers, as well as law-enforcement agencies. • The National Instruction for the South African Reserve Police Service was approved and circulated in the SAPS. The instruction dealt with all issues regarding Rests and was aimed at assisting the service in attaining its aim of strengthening community involvement and recruiting 30 000 Rests. • In 2001/2002, the Division Training brought its education, training and development skills priorities in line with the National Strategic Priorities of the SAPS. • The SAPS focused on the optimization of crime statistics, operational training, functional training, detective training, crime intelligence training, and management and leadership development. A total of 4 711 courses were presented and 58 000 members underwent training. • In 2001/2002, 2 378 members were trained in the Crime Administration System and 810 members underwent training in respect of crime definitions and crime information analysis. • The main training focus for 2002/2003 was basic training. The SAPS trained 7 100 new students from June 2002 at its training facilities in Pretoria, Oudtshoorn, Graaff-Reinet, Bisho and Chatsworth, as well as at Maleoskop, Slagboom and Jakkalsdans. • In May 2002, the first Firearm Registration Centre in the country was officially opened. Firearm Registration Centres were established as part of the implementation of the Designated Police Officer Model as prescribed by the Firearms Control Act, 2000 (Act No 60 of 2000). • Operation Tsipa was conceptualized as a special, targeted operation within Operation Crackdown for those wards where stabilization had not been achieved yet. Operation Tsipa ran from 28 January 2002 to 15 March 2002. The operation was carried out by teams comprising members from various SAPS units, assisted by members of the SANDF, the Department of Home Affairs, local traffic departments, SARS, other relevant government departments and local municipalities. • The SAPS invested substantially in new technology such as the Movement Control System which was installed at border posts and airports in September 2002. The SAPS Border Police operated at 53 land border posts, ten air border posts and nine sea border posts. As a result of the Movement Control System, as well as other new technology such as mobile luggage scanners, x-ray scanners, body scanners and a traffic-flow system, a noticeable increase in the number of seizures of illicit and illegal items was reported. • Another form of technology that was implemented and which proved to be extremely valuable to the SAPS was the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). Women’s Day 2002: Female and male members of all ranks handed out flowers to motorists. Divisional Commissioner Lindiwe Mtimkulu was among them. (Picture: courtesy Pretoria News) • In terms of drug-related successes over the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2002, mandrax tablets with an estimated value of R80 million, eConstasy with a value of R1 billion, cocaine to the value of R334 million and heroin to the value of R2 million were seized during the Organized Crime Unit’s operations. In respect of vehicle-related successes over the same period, Organized Crime units recovered vehicles with an estimated value of R92 million and vehicle components to the value of R6 million. • Preventing and combating crimes against women and children remained a priority in the 2002/2003 financial year. The Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences units arrested 15 861 offenders during this period, resulting in 98 terms of life imprisonment being handed down by the courts and 14 918 years’ imprisonment being meted out. • As terrorism was becoming a matter of international concern, the Crime Intelligence Division and the Detective Service proved to be effective. Intelligence indicated that a group of extremists, known as the Boeremag, was planning a military-type coup and had devised a detailed plan to overthrow the South African government. An integrated task team comprising intelligence operatives, detectives and other police specialists arrested a number of prominent members of this group, effectively neutralizing the threat. 41
2003 10 Years of Policing in a Democracy 1995 – 2005 42 • By mid-2003, there were 32 Child Protection units and 13 Family Violence and Sexual Offence units in the main centres and 156 towns across the country. • By September 2003, police had made significant inroads in the fight against drug peddling by confiscating drugs worth more than R500 million. • The implementation of the Crime Prevention Development Programme continued during 2003/2004. The programme facilitated the development and implementation of community-based crime-prevention strategies. The programme was successfully completed in the urban-renewal nodes of KwaMashu and Inanda in KwaZulu-Natal. The project was aimed at enhancing crime-prevention partnerships between the SAPS, municipalities, private security firms, businesses and local communities. • Between January 2002 and April 2003, 18 police members were honoured for their acts of outstanding and exceptional bravery and awarded the SAPS Cross for Bravery in the different categories: Cross for Bravery (Gold) - one recipient; Cross for Bravery (Silver) - six recipients; and Cross for Bravery (Bronze) - 11 recipients. • The Minister of Public Works, Ms Stella Sigcau, and the Minister for Safety and Security, Mr Charles Nqakula, handed over a community safety centre to the community of Centane in the Eastern Cape in July 2003. Centane Community Safety Centre boasts a police services point, a logistics and finance office, crime investigation services, two Magistrate’s Courts, Correctional Services parole officers, cells, a victim support centre and other auxiliary services such as a clinic with a delivery room, a four-bed ward, a one-bed ward, five consulting rooms, a day-care centre for children and housing for staff. Community safety centres were also opened in Thembalethu in the Western Cape, Ntsimbini in KwaZulu-Natal, Leboeng in Limpopo and Khutsong in Gauteng. • A national Victim Empowerment Programme (VEP) was launched to make the country’s criminal justice system more understandable and accessible for victims. The VEP provides counselling and other support services to victims of crime. • Early in the 2002/2003 financial year, an audit was conducted to determine the provinces’ needs for victim-friendly facilities. A three-year plan was subsequently developed for the incremental establishment of such facilities. The plan prioritized the stations responsible for 50 percent of reported incidents of gender-based violence such as rape and domestic violence. By mid-2003, victim-friendly facilities had been established at 130 police stations throughout the country. • On 1 April 2003, the SAPS launched Operation Sethunya to combat the illegal possession, trafficking and use of firearms by individuals involved in organized crime. • According to a report released in November 2003, South Africa was the world leader in solving serial murders. In other countries, it takes an average of two years to arrest a serial killer. In South Africa, numerous serial killers have been arrested within six weeks. Since 1936, the police in South Africa had chased 60 serial killers. They were unsuccessful in only 16 cases. Everyone who was arrested was subsequently convicted. • In an effort to improve the conditions of service of members, additional death benefits for police officials’ families were implemented in 2003. A death grant of R200 000 is payable to families of police members who are killed in the line of duty. • A new National Intervention Unit (NIU) was established in 2002/2003 to intervene in extreme situations where normal policing is ineffective. The NIU carries out medium-risk and high-risk operations to stabilize volatile situations and provides specialized operational support to police stations, sections and units. • In mid-2003, Cabinet approved the mandate, functions and broad structure of the new Protection and Security Services Division of the SAPS. The division is responsible for providing protection services to VIPs and for policing strategic installations. Pilot projects involving the policing of the Beit Bridge border post, the Johannesburg International Airport, the Durban harbour, the Cape Town train station and all high courts were approved for the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 financial years.
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