{"id":138031,"date":"2016-09-26T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T07:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=138031"},"modified":"2016-09-26T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T07:47:03","slug":"this-is-how-much-money-is-wasted-on-false-arrests-in-south-africa-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/138031\/this-is-how-much-money-is-wasted-on-false-arrests-in-south-africa-every-year\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how much money is wasted on false arrests in South Africa every year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Responding to a Parliamentary question issued by the Democratic Alliance,\u00a0the South African Police Service has\u00a0revealed that is has\u00a0paid out more than R854 million for wrongful arrests and detention since 2009.<\/p>\n

According to the party, there has also been a “worrying upward trend” in the amounts paid each year\u00a0– specifically, the total amount paid out increased by 400% between 2009\/10 and 2015\/16.<\/p>\n

The DA said that the numbers show that the SAPS is in a\u00a0shoddy state, and that “officers are under-trained at a station level and that they either do not know, or do not adhere to, proper policing procedures and therefore break the law or violate the SAPS Code of Conduct too frequently”.<\/p>\n

Court fees make up the bulk of the costs, accounting for R705\u00a0million of the total, with settlements making up the other R149\u00a0million, according to the SAPS. The 2015\/16 period has by far been the most costly, with R204 million being paid out for false arrests.<\/p>\n

The table below details how much has been spent on false arrests since 2009:<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/th>\nCourt Fees<\/th>\nSettlements<\/th>\nTotal<\/em><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
2009\/10<\/td>\nR32 271\u00a0176<\/td>\nR8 383\u00a0395<\/td>\nR40\u00a0654 571<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010\/11<\/td>\nR51 003\u00a0344<\/td>\nR7 060\u00a0753<\/td>\nR58 064 097<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011\/12<\/td>\nR78 192\u00a0440<\/td>\nR6 419\u00a0285<\/td>\nR84 611 725<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012\/13<\/td>\nR101 652\u00a0001<\/td>\nR22 554\u00a0054<\/td>\nR124 206 055<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013\/14<\/td>\nR138 189\u00a0961<\/td>\nR28 563\u00a0752<\/td>\nR166 753 713<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014\/15<\/td>\nR133 260\u00a0473<\/td>\nR42 740\u00a0972<\/td>\nR176 001 445<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016\/17<\/td>\nR170 652\u00a0542<\/td>\nR33 015\u00a0808<\/td>\nR203 668 350<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/strong><\/td>\nR705 221 937<\/strong><\/td>\nR148 738 019<\/strong><\/td>\nR853 959 956<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

More on crime<\/h3>\n

How many crimes in South Africa led to arrests<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

South Africa crime stats 2016: everything you need to know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The most feared crimes in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A response to a Parliamentary question on the SAPS has revealed how much of taxpayers’ money has gone to settling cases of false arrest in South Africa since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":93132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-138031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138037,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138031\/revisions\/138037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}