By Simon Nare
The SA Police Service has confirmed that it is reviewing its Inspectorate Analysis Centre and Service Complaints in line with the law that empowers the SAPS to arrange and rearrange the organisation.
SAPS national spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe told Inside Politics that National Commissioner Lieutenant-General Fannie Masemola, as empowered by law, was consulting stakeholders on the issue.
“He is busy with reviewing the structure to support the organisations policing strategy. The organisation is currently busy with consultations with internal stakeholders as well. We can, therefore, not comment until consultations are concluded and the structure is approved,” said Mathe.
The DA has raised alarm that the SAPS intended to shut down the structure, a move the party said was ill-advised given that the structure played a critical role in upholding public trust and accountability within SAPS.
DA MP Lisa Schickerling in a statement said as an internal SAPS mechanism, it
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