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Security strategist Andy Mashaile says South Africa plunging 50 places in the global ranking for safety further compromises its prospects of being removed from the Financial Action Task Force grey list.
This follows a report by the Global Safety Index which ranked 166 countries on safety and security.
South Africa is now positioned at 129 out of the 166 countries.
Mashaile attributes this to top officials being implicated in fraud and corruption.
“The unfortunate part is when those who are at top management of the police generally get to be fingered in acts of criminality. It affects us internationally. Do you think we will ever get out of the Financial Action Task Force grey list? Not for now. It also suggests that all other institutions in the world and in Africa look at us as the almost capital city of crime. I mean position 129 out of 166. This is a serious cause for concern.”
Meanwhile, Mashaile says there are deep seated divisions within the top leadership of the South African Police Service.
He says there is a clear and “irretrievably broken-down relationship” between suspended National Deputy Police Commissioner for Crime Detection, Shadrack Sibiya, and KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
Mashaile was commenting on proceedings at Parliament’s Ad-Hoc Committee investigating alleged corruption and political interference in the criminal justice system.
