IRR report into police criminality - ‘The wolf guards the sheep'
The IRR, in conjunction with Afriforum, today released results of an investigation into the extent to which police officers in South Africa plan and execute serious and violent crimes such as murder, rape, and armed robbery. The report is part of the Broken Blue Line, a research project undertaken by the IRR since 2011 to track police involvement in criminality (see here - PDF). The report came to a number of findings including:
There is extensive evidence of police involvement in serious and violent crimes such as rape, murder, and armed robbery
These are not ‘isolated incidents' but a ‘pattern of behaviour'
Police management is attempting to deal with the problem, but with limited success
The police may now be heavily infiltrated by criminal elements