By Simon Nare
National Assembly police portfolio committee chairman Ian Cameron has raised the issue of under-resourcing of the SAPS, which he warns is affecting the combating of crime in the country.
Addressing Parliament’s weekly committee media briefing in Cape Town on Tuesday, Cameron said financial sustainability of various units within the police service needed to be reviewed.
“While the closure of the political task team has been condemned, the under-resourcing of the SAPS must be stressed and it must be addressed. Financial sustainability of various task teams not only that one and high-density operations must be reviewed,”
Cameron added that recently crime intelligence was forced to decrease the informer’s budget. And in a country where intelligence had to be capacitated and policing modules improved, it was critical that those budgets were not only adequate, but properly administered.
He said the crime intelligence division has been identified by the committee
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