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Hangout: The state of private justice
Join us as Phillip de Wet speaks to security experts about the quality
of SA's police after the bungle in the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing.
The police procedural genre is well
established in pop culture. Between Law & Order, The Wire and
CSI, we all have a pretty good idea of the leads that police and
forensics experts might want to follow up on at a crime scene. But in South
Africa it seems the quality of police investigation is more Jozi Streets
than NYPD Blue.
The cross examination of South African Police
Service investigator Hilton Botha during the bail hearing of Oscar
Pistorius left a lot of questions about the quality of the country's men in
blue. This week in the paper, Mail & Guardian associate editor
Phillip De Wet explores the state of private justice in South Africa,
and what happens when an accused or a victim's family turns to private
experts instead.
Watch our live video with De Wet and
representatives from the security field to discuss the standard of detective
work provided by the South African police.
