Chairperson of the Peace and Stability Commission David Mahlobo says the African National Congress Elective Conference sitting in Nasrec, Johannesburg, has resolved that all cases of corruption within government must be investigated with speed.
He says there is no reason why there have not been any arrests, after convictions of any form of misconduct or corruption within all the government institutions. Mahlobo was addressing the media earlier on Wednesday.
“We have done a lot of investigations, but reports are sitting and we want those people to be brought to court. Go to municipalities and we have people sitting there and in the provinces there are Auditors’ reports sitting there. Public protector’s reports that are including the SIU and the ANC say there is no room for corruption. We just have to implement the things that are there, including anti-corruption agencies. They must just improve their coordination so that they become effective.”
Mahlobo has raised concerns regarding private security companies using the same uniform as law enforcement agencies. He says the governing party is looking into dealing with incidents where people have had access to police uniforms and blue lights.
“It’s safe to say that we did an assessment of the security situation in the world and reconfirmed that SA remains relatively stable. On private security, nothing has changed, but a discussion and a possible regulation with respect with private security is using the same uniform, like our law enforcement agencies. It creates some challenges. We know that there have been incidents of criminality where people have access to clothing, to blue lights and other things and we said lets deal with that issue.”
Mahlobo has highlighted the need for a higher police presence in communities.
“With respect to the police, we have reconfirmed the question that the number of police must be increased. Remember the radio was one police person around more than 300 citizens to be looked at. We say that over a period of five years that number must be able to come to one is to 150. So, there is an issue of visibility there.”
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