{"id":323387,"date":"2019-06-14T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T09:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=323387"},"modified":"2019-06-14T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T09:14:42","slug":"new-report-shows-how-dodgy-police-officers-are-targeting-south-african-drivers-for-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/323387\/new-report-shows-how-dodgy-police-officers-are-targeting-south-african-drivers-for-bribes\/","title":{"rendered":"New report shows how dodgy police officers are targeting South African drivers for bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corruption Watch has published<\/a> <\/strong>a new report on the state of corruption in the South African Police Services.<\/p>\n

The report is based on public complaints from 2012 up to the end of 2018, and considers the type of corruption and how members of the public were affected.<\/p>\n

Nationally, most cases of SAPS corruption were received from Gauteng Province accounting for 52.8% of the total number of reports in the sector. The bulk of these \u2013 a touch over 59% – emanate from Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

The provincial capital, Tshwane, contributes 16% of the cases received between 2012 and the end of 2018.<\/p>\n

Corruption Watch said that this is likely because these provinces and cities have the largest population numbers and that our main activities take place in this area.<\/p>\n

“A similar argument can be made for KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) which counts for almost 11% of the reports of corruption received in the same period,” the group said.<\/p>\n

“eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality contributed 73% of the reports of corruption received from the province.<\/p>\n

“Proportionately, the city\u2019s figure is similar to Western Cape\u2019s Cape Town, which generated 84% of the reports of corruption from that province. The Western Cape contributed slightly over 8% of reports of corruption received countrywide.”<\/p>\n

Bribery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Corruption Watch said that bribery was the most commonly reported issue (33%), followed by abuse of power (23%) and a failure to act (18%).<\/p>\n

“There are reports of officers soliciting bribes from motorists for arbitrary reasons and the amounts run into the tens of thousands of rands,” the group said.<\/p>\n

“In a case from Gauteng, where bribery stands at 47%, a complainant stated that a police vehicle followed her and her partner from a social gathering with friends and as they approached home -which was 2 km from the event – they were stopped, accused of driving under the influence, without being tested, and asked for R1,000.”<\/p>\n

In other random stops and searches, motorists are asked to pay thousands of rands to continue driving their vehicles that are not roadworthy, Corruption Watch said.<\/p>\n

The group said that it has also been approached with reports of officers accepting bribes to ‘make dockets disappear’.<\/p>\n

This leads to cases being thrown out of court and perpetrators of horrid crimes, such as murder and rape, returning to communities that they terrorised.<\/p>\n

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Read: Drivers warned about travelling on one of South Africa\u2019s busiest highways after dark<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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