October 7 2010 at 06:59am
By Graeme Hosken
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Pretoria News
Executive Director for Pro-Active Policing Ndumiso Jaca accepts an award from Acting City manager Oupa Nkoame, left, and the Mayor of Tshwane Gwen Ramokgopa at the Tshwane Service Excellence Awards. Photo: Sizwe Ndingane
By Graeme Hosken and Patrick Hlahla
Corruption has become a “hobby” within the Tshwane Metro Police Department). This was revealed in a report by the Institute of Security Studies three years ago.
The report, “City Blues: Corruption and Corruption Management in South Africa’s Metropolitan Police Departments”, dates back to 2007, but nothing, sources in the department said, has changed in the past three years. Corruption remains a problem within the organisation, they said.
The Pretoria News and Eyewitness News in an investigation into alleged corruption within the city council revealed that more than 25 percent of metro police officials – including office-bound staff and those out on operations – were under investigation.
A total of 350 dockets have been opened by the Internal Investigations Unit against the department’s over 1 200 police members.
The report says the department is South Africa’s second largest metro police department with 1 914 employees, 1 220 of whom are police members.
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