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DECEMBER 2019 | FREE POLICE YOUR OFFICIAL FREE SAPS MAGAZINE READY TO SERVE ON A JOURNEY TO A SAFER SOUTH AFRICA #Selfless&PatrioticService CONTENTS 01 02 National Commissioner’s 13 Arrest and detention of suspects POLICE Message The POLICE magazine is published by 14 EHW the Publications and Broadcast Section of Corporate Communication. 03 New Top Managers HEAD: 17 Flash News CORPORATE COMMUNICATION Maj Gen SA de Beer 04 Passing-out Parade SUB-SECTION HEAD: 18 Viva Fitness INTERNAL PUBLICATIONS Col Linda van den Berg 06 16 Days of Activism 012 393 7075 20 STF and ORS Excellence Awards SUBEDITOR Lt Col Fundiswa Maphanga 08 Typist Bosman retires 012 393 7104 21 Missing Persons JOURNALISTS: Lt Col Erica Holtzhausen 10 WO Mokoena receives a car 012 393 7106 22 Wanted Persons Capt Keitumetse Mmushi 012 393 7138 11 HRU - Excellence Awards Capt Vincent Mukhathi 012 393 7088 12 Tourism safety and security Capt Kgabo Mashamaite 012 393 7151 Capt Ndanduleni Nyambeni 012 393 7279 WO Percy Sepaela 012 393 7108 many others, rests on the shoulders of LAYOUT he 2019/2020 WO Henk Venter hard working men and women in blue. The Tannual Safer COVER Festive Season SAPS has many dedicated police officials who work tirelessly to fight crime directly PHOTOGRAPHER: campaign was WO Theo van Wyk bolstered by a and indirectly. The organisation is grateful 012 393 7103 to all its members for their dedication to 5 000-member LANGUAGE EDITING BY: the SAPS and the country and goes to great Lt Col Ilze-Mari Visagie strong contingent Capt Maurene Claasens lengths to laud members who go above and SAPS POLICE ONLINE: of new recruits beyond the call of duty. Lt Col Johan Heüer 012 393 7030 who joined the [email protected] fight against We recently held awards ceremonies to REPUBLISHING Permission to republish articles crime in the peak of the holiday reward members who went the extra mile contained in the POLICE may be when executing their duties. Members from obtained from the Head: Corporate season. These new constables Communication. The opinions were deployed at various hotspots the Human Resources Utilisation Division expressed in the POLICE are not necessarily those of the Head: around the country to keep tourists, (p 11) and the Special Task Force (p 20), Corporate Communication, his staff or of the POLICE authorities. holidaymakers and citizens safe as well as last year’s annual National Excellence Awards laureate winner (p INDEMNITY (pp 4-5). Contributions, photographs and 10) received tangible appreciation for all other material sent to the POLICE for publication must be accompanied their efforts in their quests to serve and to by a stamped and self-addressed These new police officials also augmented envelope. Contributions are returned the various efforts aimed directly at keeping protect the nation. at the risk of the contributor. The POLICE reserves the right to effect tourists safe, including the joint tourism changes to any contribution. Also paramount to the success of the safety plan spearheaded by the SAPS and COPYRIGHT POLICE the Tourism Department (p 12). The strategy SAPS’s fight against crime is team work. Copyright reserved aims at addressing all crime affecting This month’s Employee Health and Wellness the tourism industry during the festive article on team work (pp 14 -16) is a must- season – when the country welcomes most read for everyone. Together we can do of its guests – and beyond. The plan is to more. proactively deal with all forms of crime that Major General Sally de Beer affect tourism throughout the year to create a safe environment for all people in the @ SAPoliceService country at all times. South African The success of crime-fighting initiatives Police Service such as the Safer Festive Season campaign (SAPS Official Page) and the Tourism Safety Strategy, among www.saps.gov.za 02 POLICE DECEMBER 2019 DECEMBER 2019 POLICE 03 arms from getting back onto the streets, the organisation regularly melts firearms at destruction events. The most recent were held in April and October this year, where 53 MINISTER CELE ANNOUNCES NEW 000 firearms were destroyed. Our hardworking men and women in blue, have also significantly contributed to the fight against the proliferation TOP MANAGERS of illegal firearms and ammunition. Their efforts in By Captain Vincent Mukhathi roadblocks, intelligence-driven operations, routine stop- Photographs by Captain Ndanduleni Nyambeni and-searches, as well as following up on tip-offs, saw the seizure of numerous, illegal firearms and ammunition that From left to right: Police Minister Bheki Cele flanked by the Deputy Police Minister were destroyed in these events. Cassel Mathale, National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole and Deputy National Commissioner Bonang Mgwenya as he announces the appointments of SAPS top We implore all police officials, especially our members managers who have built a rapport with the community by ensuring good service delivery at community service centres, in Sector Policing and other community-police initiatives, to encourage the public to report persons who illegally have firearms and ammunition in their possession. Taking these NATIONAL COMMISSIONER’S MESSAGE guns off the streets means that the criminals’ gun pool becomes smaller, and that will result in a reduction in crime GENERAL KHEHLA JOHN SITOLE perpetrated by using guns. Many persons or family members of deceased persons who t is common knowledge that the levels of own(ed) firearms considered to have heritage value, are Iviolent crimes in South Africa have reached often reluctant to surrender such firearms to the police. unacceptable levels and is adversely affecting Members on the ground should help us allay these fears by spreading the word that such firearms are carefully the country’s socio-economic stability and selected from the rest and handed over to the South African he Minister of Police, General Bheki Cele, Lieutenant General Moeketsi Sempe, a former Free State advancement. Heritage Resources Agency for preservation, as was the announced the appointments of new provincial Provincial Commissioner, was named as the Divisional T Commissioner for Visible Policing. Lieutenant General Sempe case with over 300 firearms at the most recent destruction commissioners and the new Divisional Commissioner The reduction of violence can only be achieved through event. took over from Lieutenant General Sharon Jephta, who retires a sustainable integrated multi-disciplinary approach of Visible Policing at the Government Communication at the end of 2019. which includes law enforcement, social workers, schools, The 10th of December also marked the end of the and Information System (GCIS)’s Head Office in government in its entirety, the private sector, non- commemoration of the 16 Days for No Violence Against Pretoria on 12 December 2019. Lieutenant General Yolisa Matakata, former from the Directorate for Priority Investigations, was appointed as the governmental organisations, and the citizens of South Women and Children campaign, which had begun on the Provincial Commissioner for the Western Cape. The Western Africa. 25th of November. This scourge must be fought every single Briefing the media, General Cele highlighted that the Cape has been without a permanent provincial commissioner day of the year – not just during annual campaigns and on appointments of the top managers had been made following since Lieutenant Khombinkosi Jula was transferred to Gun violence, in particular, is rife in the country. Though extensive consultation and in line with the SAPS’s Turnaround commemoration days. KwaZulu-Natal in August 2019. this is a global phenomenon, in a recent global study South Vision, which aimed at responding to the SAPS’s core mandate th of preventing, combating and investigating crime to ensure that Africa ranked 12 on a list of countries with the highest We need to come together as a country, to eliminate gender- Lieutenant General Sello Kwena, who has more than 31 years’ the people of South Africa are and feel safe as enshrined in the rate of death’s involving guns. Echoing this, our most recent based violence through implementing multidisciplinary, service, was appointed as the Provincial Commissioner for Constitution. crime statistics show that guns are the leading cause of social change projects that will impart gender-parity values North West. murder in the country. and non-violent conflict resolution skills to society. We, as “These permanent appointments will provide structure, the criminal justice system, must perform our respective Lieutenant General Baile Motswenyane, formerly the enhanced accountability, as well as command and control in the Research, the world over, has found that the most effective duties to the best of our ability so that victims can report Provincial Commissioner of the North West Province, was respective division and provinces to ensure that the SAPS, as an way of curbing gun violence is firstly, by enforcing strict abuse freely with the knowledge that they will be protected appointed the Provincial Commissioner for Free State. organisation, works toward a common goal – ‘journeying to a gun control measures and secondly, by recovering and and justice will be served. safer South Africa’,” said General Cele. destroying illegal and unwanted firearms. Therefore, the The National Commissioner of the SAPS, General Khehla Sitole, Minister has declared a firearm amnesty period between told the media that the due processes were followed with these That is what we need to enable us to rid this country of not He further said that he was confident that the new managers senior appointments, that there was complete fairness and 1 December 2019 until 31 May 2020 to afford persons only violence against women and children, but of all forms would help the SAPS turn the tide against crime and ensure transparency, and that the premiers of the provinces where new an opportunity to hand in unwanted or illegal firearms of violence and other social ills.