By Staff Reporter
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popocru) has welcomed the acquittal of eight members of the Presidential Protection Unit linked to Deputy President Paul Mashatile, saying they endured undue public vilification while being subjected legal processes.
The union has also hit out at Portfolio Committee on Police chairperson Ian Cameron for publicly referring to the group as “thugs” following their acquittal by an internal disciplinary process.
Cameron said that the outcome was travesty of justice and a blow to public trust in law enforcement accountability.
The group is still facing criminal charges following them being captured on a video that showed them allegedly assaulting a driver on the N1. They were part of Mashatile’s protection unit.
“This disgraceful outcome is the direct result of a failed internal SAPS disciplinary system, obstructive union interference and complicit police leadership,” Cameron said in a statement earlier this week.
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