The SAPS has been accused of being heavy-handed as they cajoled a traumatised nation into obeying a whole new set of regulations to halt the spread of Covid-19. SaturdayStar
And it is how police forces act during this troubled time that will have a long-lasting effect on their relationship with the communities they serve, believes Dan Jones, an inspector with the Edmonton police in Canada and researcher at the University of Huddersfield in the UK.
The concern, said Jones, is that by using the wrong approach, they can lose their legitimacy with poor communities, who are often over-policed and distrustful of the police. In South Africa, the police's handling of the lockdown did not start very well, according to criminologist Dr Andrew Faull of the Institute of Security Studies.
By the end of last month, the SAPS had made 230 000 lockdown related arrests, and 11 people had died as a result of police action. “It is not only compassion for the people that are involved in crime, we need to understand the social determinants of crime and health, and weave those into how we train and how we understand populations.
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