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Gauteng’s Crime Prevention Wardens
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng says it will seek legal opinion on the decision to declare more than 9 000 Crime Wardens known as AmaPanyaza as peace officers.
This after the Department of Justice on Friday announced that the Gauteng Crime Prevention Wardens would be reclassified as peace officers to assist provincial law enforcement.
The DA’s provincial leader, Solly Msimanga, says the process to grant peace officer status to the wardens appears to be rushed and may lack the required legislative framework.
“We have been asking since the inception of this programme to be given the details of the service provider to then verify if this is an accredited training that the AmaPanyaza are receiving. I had engaged with quite a number of AmaPanyaza’s myself and some of them, up to date, four years later, haven’t even received a single certificate to then say that they have undergone this training and this is the authority that has given them the training.”
“We have seen how corners have been cut, even in the management of the AmaPanyaza. So, to get concurrence from the minister is not sufficient. It’s an issue about the training, the qualifications and the authority that is conveyed to these people,” adds Msimanga.
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