Professionalising SAPS is the only way to root out corruption
8 August 2019
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is not shocked to learn that seven police officers have been arrested for corruption and defeating the ends of justice following the Johannesburg CBD raid on counterfeit goods.
It is alleged that these police officers were caught attempting to resell the confiscated goods back to the illegal traders. Some of these police officers were arrested for allegedly leaking information on the planned raid to those selling counterfeit goods.
This is a clear indication that in SAPS there is a rotten group perhaps operating in a syndicate and that there is an urgent need to root out corruption within SAPS.
These police officers have failed to abide by the oath of office that they took when they joined the SAPS, therefore giving all other police officers a bad image.