Police in the province have refuted claims of alleged corruption in the service contained in the recently released 2021/22 Policing Needs and Priorities Report.
The police officials appeared before the Standing Committee on Community Safety, Cultural Affairs and Sport yesterday to respond to the report, where they were also taken to task over other issues it contained, including the number of lost case dockets and inadequate human resource capacity.
According to the report, between 2009 and 2021, 1 303 corruption investigations were lodged against police members in the province, and resulted in 680 members being found guilty. Of these, 304 were dismissed, and others received lesser sanctions.
The report further said that in 2019/20, about 33 police officers were arrested on charges of corruption, business robbery, defeating the administration of…