SAPS Management distances itself from the IRR Broken Blue Line 2 report
Pretoria - The South Africa Police Service management wishes to make public the fact that the organisation distances itself from the South African Institute of Race Relations report entitled the "Broken Blue Line 2".
The National Commissioner of Police, General Riah Phiyega, at her request, met with Mr Frans Cronje of the Institute of Race Relations and Mr Ian Cameron of Afriforum, which funded the report, on 23 January 2015. General Phiyega requested the meeting in order to gain insight into the contents of the report.
After making a presentation on the report and engaging on the research methodology and other matters, the two representatives were advised of the following:
The methodology used to conduct the research leading to the compilation of the report, in our opinion, is fundamentally flawed;
The South African Police Service (SAPS) was never engaged during the course of the research process, yet the report is about this organisation;