13 Apr 2006: ISS Seminar, Pretoria: Metro Policing in South Africa: Challenges and Achievements

ISS SEMINAR: METRO POLICING IN SOUTH AFRICA: CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Pretoria, 13 April 2006



CRIME AND JUSTICE PROGRAMME



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(Picture: City of Johannesburg)

 

It has been a little over five years since metropolitan police departments were first established in South Africa. Despite relatively small numbers of operational personnel, they are now a familiar part of the policing landscape. With good reason, metro police officers have tended to do better at traffic control than crime prevention, and their relationship with the SAPS has needed attention. This seminar will reflect on achievements and challenges facing these new police organisations.

 

Speaker: Gareth Newham, advisor to the Gauteng MEC for Safety and Security, will discuss results of research he conducted while at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.

 

The seminar will also launch the latest issue of the ISS’s SA Crime Quarterly, which carries Gareth Newham’s article on the metro police. Other topics in this issue are:

  • Can our public order police still deliver?

  • Policing and the sex industry

  • Xenophobia among Johannesburg’s police

  • Evaluating the Western Cape community courts

Date:    Thursday 13 April 2006
Time:    10h00 – 11h30
Venue:  ISS, Block C, Brooklyn Court, Veale Street East, Pretoria

RSVP:   Ms Busiswa Nyume, email: [email protected]
            Tel: (012) 346 9500, Fax (012) 460 0998

 

Parking is available at the Brooklyn Mall and ABSA Parkades at your own cost

 

This seminar is made possible by funding from the Hanns Seidel Foundation



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