Policing Tag

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This paper describes the major challenges faced by the new government in realizing the Constitutional vision of one accountable and transparent South African Police Service. The issues selected reflect concern with the transformation of the police organization, as the central institution in the broader enterprise of policing. They could be regarded as priority items on the agenda of elected politicians and police leaders responsible for the reform process.

Janine Rauch, Nadia Levin, Melanie Lue and Kindisa Ngubeni
01 Jul 1994
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The haphazard transition negotiation process, which was frequently stalled or held to ransom by various key political players, was not systematic in generating new consensus-based alternatives for social regulation. The result had been a vacuum of legitimate authority within society, accompanied by growing lawlessness, which in turn accentuated the challenge to policing agencies to establish their credibility based on community trust and professionalism. This paper examines some of the limits and possibilities of the transformation of the SAPS in this context.

Nadia Levin, Kindisa Ngubeni and Graeme Simpson
02 May 1994
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This is a transcript of a presentation by Frans Cronje, second in charge of Physical Rendering of Services in the South African Police Service during the run up to the 1994 general election. In his speech at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, he addresses challenges associated with policing the first democratic election in South Africa.

Frans Cronje
03 Feb 1994
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This essay draws on the concept of embedded policing to argue that community safety rather than community policing must be achieved through the proliferation of civil ordering and injury prevention programmes. This should be coordinated by a Community Safety Forum within which community policing is one of the components of ordering: a Community Policing Charter is proposed, specifying police service standards and methods of implementation. Finally, it is argued that bottom-up initiatives will not succeed unless they hook into a workable national accountability system that creates "circles of power" through which individuals and communities achieve and maintain political leverage.

Victor Nell and Gerald Williamson
25 Aug 1993
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This paper analyzes police-community relations in South Africa. It focuses on the way that South Africa's political context has impacted these relations. It also looks at the ways in which the police are understood both by communities and by the police themselves, and how this impacts on expectations of the police. The paper draws on international experiences to provide recommendations for improving police-community relations.

Etienne Marais
04 Aug 1993
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