Gauteng SAPS and Gauteng ANC leadership defy oversight mandate of members of the legislature
01 August 2014
The SAPS in Gauteng are currently denying access to Police Stations for individual members of the Provincial Legislature (MPL's) doing oversight. They are insisting that permission be requested from the Provincial Police Commissioner before such visits occur.
It is the function of MPL's to perform oversight visits to public institutions to fulfil their constitutional mandate of oversight.
Many MP's and MPL's, countrywide and across the political spectrum have done unannounced visits on police Stations for many years to ensure that they are properly resourced and functional.
However, in Gauteng, it seems station commanders have been informed in writing that they are not to allow these visits if the public representative has not got permission from the provincial Commissioner, Lt. General Lesetja Mothiba.