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[File photo] President Cyril Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the keynote address at the opening of the 2025 policing summit at the Emperors Palace Convention Centre in Ekurhuleni metro, Gauteng, on Tuesday.
The summit will address the high levels of crime in the country under the theme “Efficiency in Action: Optimizing South Africa’s policing Potential”.
The three-day summit will focus on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in combating crime, and will cover four broad themes focusing on visible policing, detective services, and crime intelligence.
The South African Policing Union (SAPU) spokesperson, Lesiba Thobakgale, says they have outlined issues they hope the President will address.
“If you still have an under-resourced service like SAPS, starting from the human capital going down to physical resources, it really becomes difficult to win against crime. If one compares the capacity of SAPS just before 2010, we were just above 190 000, but when one looks now, the population has since grown, but the numbers have since gone down. So we hope that this summit will also touch on that, and we still continue to see the number of police killings. We need to have a solution for police killings because we need to make sure that we protect our protectors,” says Thobakgale.
President @CyrilRamaphosa will on Tuesday open the Police Summit at the Emperors Palace Convention Centre, Gauteng.
The Summit will address the high crime levels in SA, reflect on current policing approaches & develop more effective methods for SAPS.
— The Presidency 🇿🇦 (@PresidencyZA) April 4, 2025
