SAPS RESTRUCTURING A PLOY FOR PHAHLANE’S AMBITION
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) is getting increasingly concerned about the continued ignorance and disregard for procedural agreements displayed by the acting National Commissioner.
As part of the so-called Back to Basics campaign, which is being loud hailed without the necessary resources and has not been discussed anywhere through the involvement stakeholders, Phahlane continues to undermine the role and decisions of collective agreements and that of stakeholders.
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is in direct contravention of the collective agreement signed at the Safety and Security Sectoral Bargaining Council (SSSBC) which indicates that the SAPS must have a meaningful consultation with the parties to the collective agreement before any implementation of any matter such as restructuring and any other changes to the organization are effected.
As part of his self-serving agenda, Phahlane has unilaterally started implementing the restructuring process which is not informed by any strategy.
In the past 5 years, the SAPS has been restructured 4 times with top-heavy structures, with lots of managers at the Head Office doing absolutely nothing, and this has not yielded any positive results in dealing with crime, but instead created a long bureaucratic process.