FIGHTING CRIME: INTERVIEW: NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSIONER JACKIE SELEBI re: Operation Crack-down, police brutality & corruption

Record ID: 880927

  • Title: FIGHTING CRIME: INTERVIEW: NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSIONER JACKIE SELEBI re: Operation Crack-down, police brutality & corruption
  • Date: 7th September 2000
  • Summary: FIGHTING CRIME: INTERVIEW: NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSIONER JACKIE SELEBI re: Operation Crack-down, police brutality & corruption
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  • City: Pretoria
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 00SEP07R01
  • Story Text:INTERVIEW:

    NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSIONER JACKIE SELEBI re:

    01.00.39 OPERATION CRACK-DOWN - DEAL WITH GEOGRAPHICAL TO CRIME - IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS HIGHEST CRIME RATE
    01.01.43 SECOND LEG OF THAT OPERATION - ORGANISED CRIME - IDENTIFYING CRIMINAL GROUPINGS - FUNCTIONING AS SYNDICATES - NEED INTEGRATED GROUPS TO DEAL WITH THAT
    01.03.15 VEHICLE THEFT & HIJACKING - WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO RECOVER 8800 VEHICLES - RECOVERED 8500 WEAPONS SOME OF WHICH WE DESTROYED - CRIMINALS - HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ARREST 266 000 PEOPLE SINCE WE STARTED
    01.04.05 OPERATION IS WORKING - REMOVED QUARTER OF MILLION OF CRIMINALS FROM THE STREET IN PERIOD LESS THAN A YEAR - ACHIEVEMENT
    01.04.45 HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REDUCE CRIME IN GAUTENG BY 10%
    01.05.10 ORGANISED CRIME - SYNDICATE MANUFACTURING NARCOTICS IN MOZAMBIQUE
    01.05.34 DESTROYED SYNDICATE IN GAUTENG WITH 80 MEMBERS
    01.06.29 HAVE BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY 27 TOP PRIORITY CRIMINAL GROUPINGS - OPERATION CRACK-DOWN IS WORKING
    01.07.43 120 AREAS OF HIGH LEVELS OF CRIME - ALEXANDRA, MITCHELL'S PLAIN, RUSTENBURG, HILLBROW - RECLAIMING FROM THE CRIMINALS TO BRING IT BACK TO THE PEOPLE
    01.09.03 ORGANISED CRIME - BROKEN VARIOUS GROUPS - ILLEGAL EXPORT OF FISH - DRUGS DISMANTLE OF NUMBER OF SYNDICATES - DRUG-RELATED CRIMES INCREASE
    01.10.33 MURDER & ATTEMPTED MURDER - DOWN BY 17% - SIGN WE ARE ENGAGED
    01.10.53 CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN & CHILDREN - 520 CASES - AROUND RUSTENBURG
    01.11.37 IMPLIMENTATION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT
    01.12.33 HAVE A PROBLEM IN THE PRETORIA AREA
    01.13.26 THE MORE WE ARE VISIBLE & THE LESS TIME PEOPLE HAVE TO PLAN MURDERS - THE EFFIENCY OF POLICE IS GROWING
    01.13.55 PART OF OUR PROBLEMS - OUR SYSTEMS WERE NOT GEARED TO GIVE STATISTICS WE NEED - NEED IT TO PLAN OPERATIONS
    01.15.59 PICK-POCKETING IN TRANSPORT
    01.16.18 ARMED & BANK ROBBERY - CIVIL SERVANTS GETTING PAID - GETTING CORRECT INFORMATION - TRAINING OF PERSONNEL
    01.17.59 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - COMMUNICATE STATISTICS THAT ARE INACCURATE - INTEGRATE ALL IT SYSTEMS
    01.19.10 RAPE - EVERY 27" SOMEONE IS RAPED - HOW DID YOU GET THAT - CAPTAIN SMITH IN 1993 WAS ASKED ABOUT RAPE STATISTICS IN SA - WHITE SA STATISTICS TIMES BY 10 AND THEN GOT TO 27" - UNTRUE
    01.20.57 FOREIGN INVESTORS NO NEED TO BE FEARFUL TO INVEST IN SA - VEHICLE THEFT MAIN PROBLEM FOR BUSINESS
    01.22.40 COMMERCIAL CRIME - FRAUD
    01.23.16 POLICE MORAL - IS BEEN ON THE RISE - A SENSE OF BELONGING EMERGED
    01.24.23 DIFFICULTIES - CONDITIONS OF SERVICE POLICE - SALARIES - OVER-TIME PAY - CAN MEET POLICE OFFICIALS HALF-WAY
    01.25.24 PROBLEM - VEHICLES FOR POLICE OFFICERS - EMPOWER THE POLICE
    01.26.16 POLICE BRUTALITY & CORRUPTION - ADRESS IT IN A VERY DETERMINED & FOCUSED WAY - OVER 97% ARE HONEST POLICE OFFICERS -TRAFFIC OFFENSES
    01.29.16 127 000 POLICE MEMBERS - YOU MAY HAVE ROTTEN APPLES
    01.30.24 PEOPLE DYING IN POLICE CUSTODY - SA IS A TRANSFORMING SOCIETY - TO REMOVE CERTAIN PRACTICES ARE NOT GOING TO BE EASY - BBC BROADCAST
    01.13.34 THERE IS NO PLACE FOR TORTURE IN THE SA POLICE SERVICE OF TODAY - MAJORITY ACT WITHING THE LAW - ARE INCIDENTS
    01.32.10 WHEN I USED TO GETH ARRESTED - THE POLICE WOULD HAVE A CONFESSION WITHIN THE NEXT 15' DEPENDING ON MMY RESILIANCE - THEY BEAT THE HELL OUT OF YOU
    01.33.03 THE TIME TO INVESTIGATE A CRIME TAKES LONGER - THE PUBLIC WANTS INSTANT RESULTS - WE CAN'T HOLD PEOPLE LONGER THAN 48 HOURS
    01.33.36 TIME TO TIME DO GET A POLICEMAN WHO IS FRUSTRATED - HE KNEW 6 YEARS AGO HE WOULD HAVE KICKED A CONFESSION OUT OF THE PERSON
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