South Africa Police Service Needs to Clean House says Liza Grobler
Shortly after arriving in South Africa I learned of the book Crossing the Line: When Cops Become Criminals by Liza Grobler. I gave it a read and concluded that Grobler could present a thorough and timely overview of the situation here on the ground related to the South Africa Police Service (SAPS).
Through Elrena van der Spuy, whom we met and interviewed (stay tuned for a related video), and Jacana Media (who previously interviewed Grobler), I was able to get in touch with Grobler, who agreed to sit-down and share some thoughts.
Grobler and I spoke for over three hours – this video is some of the over 30-minutes of footage I captured. As is clear, Grobler is well-familiar with the SAPS as an institution, and how issues of corruption and criminal cops have been ignored by higher-ups, thus compounding and entrenching them even further. Of course the current war on some substances isn’t helping things.
Grobler says that politics must be removed from policing, and that the SAPS needs to clean house before overhauling the hiring, training, promotion, grievance, and complaint functions. That’s a tall task. Will that happen?
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