Police Committee welcomes suspension of senior officers

We closed off with Annelizé van Wyk - Chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police. She was speaking to us about the suspension of two senior police officers in Pretoria. This emerged after the Committee’s call for the suspension of officers working at the Central Firearm Registry last week following allegations, made by a private firearm company, that senior officers are accepting bribes to issue firearm licenses. It was also alleged that senior officers working for the CFR were accepting bribes to issue gun licenses according to newspaper reports. The Committee wants assurance from SAPS that no backlog will be experienced because of the bribery allegations and the suspension of the officers, and that the issuing of licences will proceed timeously. The Committee would also like to see measures put in place to combat bribery in the issuing of licenses.