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The Department of Correctional Services has been conducting similar operations at prisons across the country in an effort to curb illegal activities within its facilities.
National Correctional Services Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale has directed provincial commissioners to take stronger action to prevent contraband from entering correctional facilities.
Thobakgale was speaking during a raid at the Tswelopele Correctional Facility in Kimberley, Northern Cape, where police and correctional services officials confiscated items including cellphones, illegal cigarettes, and tattoo equipment.
The Department of Correctional Services has been conducting similar operations at prisons across the country in an effort to curb illegal activities within its facilities.
“I’ve dispatched letters with the reports, the findings, to the regional commissioners to say I’m giving them a month for work,” says Thobakgale. “Firstly, what they need to do is to get deeper, because obviously here, we’re doing a search for one night at one particular correctional facility. So, the regional commissioners need to get deeper into what is happening with regards to security and contraband.”
Thobakgale also emphasised that disciplinary action must be taken where officials are found to be complicit.
“Secondly, they need to come up with their plans to improve. But thirdly, where our officials are found to have wronged, I expect action to be taken,” he adds.
Tswelopele Correctional Centre | Officials raid Kimberley facility
