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At the time when the study was conceived the public order units were still
known as Area Crime Combating Units (ACCUs) but later in the same year (2006), the units underwent a radical restructuring and were renamed Crime Combating Units (CCUs).
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Counter-participants is a reference to opportunists planning to take advantage of
a situation.
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The policy, which was intended to be implemented throughout the SAPS was
not accepted by all the members because certain ‘principles in the policy were deemed unsuitable’ with the result that a format that was suitable to everyone had to be adapted (Telephonic interview with Supt V Day 11 November 2005).
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Stations assisted does not include strikes, gatherings, marches, evictions, and VIP
protection. It only pertains to crime combating functions for stations.
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See ISS website https://www.issafrica.org/index.php>Media Statement, Briefing
Session on the Impact of the SAPS Restructuring on the Policing of Violence against Women and Children, 31 May 2006. Joint Media release by the SAPS and Institute for Security Studies.
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Detached duties is a reference to members sent on duties other than those they
are designated to do, for example, assisting in disaster management in another province.
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An accounting station under the SAPS new restructuring plan is a large station
providing administrative functions to approximately five to six police stations falling under it.
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This is a reference to members deployed on the borders of the country to
perform crime combating duties.
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Displacement of crime occurs when, as a result of successful crime prevention
operations in one area, crime shifts to a neighbouring area.
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The Khutsong protests centre on the incorporation of a municipality from
Gauteng province into the North West province.
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The document is referred to by the SAPS as an Establishment Document because
it was never made into a policy.
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A bakkie is a motor vehicle or van that has side doors and is used for transporting
goods and people.
