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Police Accountability

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Dynamic resource to strengthen policing oversight and to enhance and promote effective, publicly accountable policing in Southern Africa.

The aim of this website is:

For more information on policing oversight in the South African Development Community (SADC) please use the country drop-down menu in the top right hand side corner.

A new related website is The African Police Resource Network (APRN), a virtual resource which provides access to information relevant to public police and its reform in Africa.

 

New Publications

Police


Stamping out rights: the impact of anti-terrorism legislation on policing. more


Berg, Julie 2007. Plural Policing in Cape Town: Recent Trends and Challenges to Oversight. more


Faull, Andrew 2007. Corruption and the South African Police Service: A Review and its Implications. more

Police Organisations in Post Conflict African States: A Review by Janine Rauch and Elrena van der Spuy. IDASA November 2006. more

Bruce, D. (2006). Building Respect for the Badge: The management of the use of force by police. Research report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, September. more

Berg, Julie. 2007. The Accountability of the South African Private Security Industry OSF-SA Monograph 2. Open Society Foundation for South Africa. Link to online


In Service of the People's Democracy. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
Shielding Impunity
Bruce, D., Newham, G. & Masuku, T. 2007. In Service of the People's Democracy. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. This assessment of the South African Police Service (SAPS) is based on the framework used in the handbook, The Police That We Want: A Handbook for Oversight of Police in South Africa.The handbook aims to inform civilian oversight of the police in South Africa by identifying the key issues that should be interrogated by oversight bodies when they scrutinise the SAPS and other South African police agencies .
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The Police, The People, The Politics:
 Kenya
Police Accountability in Kenya

Police Accountability in Uganda
Police Accountability in Tanzania
Police Accountability in Ghana

The police that we want: A handbook for oversight of police in South Africa

The police that we want
Published by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in association with the Open Society Foundation for South Africa and the Open Society Justice Initiative. 2005.
The handbook is intended to be a resource for people involved in police oversight in South Africa.
PoliceThatWeWant.pdf  (1.4 MB)
Author: David Bruce and Racheld Neild
Published Date: 2005

 

Current News


Kenya: Police Reform Key to Ending Impunity - UN Expert

Time to keep rent-a-cops on a tight rein 2008

Journal of Security Sector Management Vol 6 Issue 3 - November 2008
 

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