More police officers will mean faster response times, more effective policing and more boots on the ground to deter criminals
While the president's recent state of the nation address promised to recruit another 10,000 police personnel this year to deal with the heavy toll of violent crime, SA’s police service remains woefully understaffed and under-resourced, by both international standards and the needs of the country.
However, it is also important to recognise that in SA the relatively low ratio of police to citizens is combined with an unusually high crime rate. While the government has been working to gradually increase the number of police officers to improve public safety and reduce crime, the problem of inadequate resources and rising criminality still exists — especially given factors such as increasingly difficult economic conditions.
In December, 9,203 newly trained police constables successfully completed their nine-month intensive police development training programme at various police training academies across the country, including the SA National Defence Force training facility in the Northern Cape. These members were then deployed to bolster crime prevention efforts.
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