The violent misconduct acts include death as a result of police action, rape by a police officer and torture or assault.
The statistics showed that the Eastern Cape leads with the highest number of cases with a combined figure 2 175 from over the nine-year period.
The Western Cape is second with 2057 cases, followed by the Free State at 1 287 and the North West at 1 142.The figures supplied by Cele do not show the breakdown according to provinces the police officers that were suspended during the period. However, in 2012/13 the number of officers charged with violent misconduct was 549, the following year the figure stood at 606.Cele’s statistics show a significant jump in cases in 2014/15 to 2 010 in 2015/16.There was an even bigger decline in the 2017/18 year when numbers dropped to 864, but this was short-lived as cases spiked again in 2018/19 at 1 146.Political Bureau
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