SAPS failed to recruit a single police trainee between 2020 and 2021
8 March 2023
Note to editors: Please find attached soundbite by Okkie Terblanche MP.
The DA calls on Police Minister Bheki Cele to urgently provide an action plan for the recruitment of police trainees. We also want to know how he will address the massive shortage in SAPS staff.
This follows a presentation in the Police Portfolio Committee today where SAPS revealed that between 2020 and 2021 no new police trainees were recruited and that SAPS lost 11 178 members between 2020 and 2022.
This is a horrifying revelation of just how far behind the police have fallen in their attempts to tackle crime.