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Police Minister Senzo Mchunu speaks at an event.
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, says the South African Police Service (SAPS) has secured a partnership with the private sector to begin digitizing case dockets, as well as to upgrade five police stations.
The identified police stations are in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and the Western Cape.
During a press briefing on the outcomes of the three-day Policing Summit held in Ekurhuleni this week, Mchunu said the focus will be on five police stations.
“We firmly sorted our relationship by getting business committing into five commitments that we will implement jointly. They include upgrading five police stations that we will start with and digitizing dockets and all of those matters we expect them at the beginning of the week to start effectively working on implementation where money is not a barrier, and all of that.”
National Policing Summit | Digitization of police dockets: Senzo Mchunu
National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola, at the press briefing, added that advanced technology will be the future of policing South Africa.
Masemola, says one of the major outcomes from the Policing Summit was that the only way to effectively fight crime is to use the latest technology, despite budgetary constraints.
The use of body-worn cameras will not only help in the fight against crime, but also reduce corrupt activities.
“We are looking forward that this year we are going to roll out body cams. We won’t be able to roll out to the whole service, but there will be key areas in the frontline policing, those are the areas that we targeting. Frontline, we refer to as highway patrol, flying squad and your POP. So those are the areas that we targeting and also the rollout.”
They are also working to link the municipal owned CCTV cameras to the police’s 10111 provincial command centres across the country.
Masemola says this will speed up the reaction time to deal with criminal incidents.
