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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"South African Police Service"”.
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Investigating retention in the South African Police Service
Background In order for the South African Police Service to fulfil its mandate of creating a safe and secure environment, various human, financial, and technological resources are required. Hence, the availability of adequately trained human resources is considered critical in ensuring that the …
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Coping, stress and suicide ideation in the South African Police Service
A productive and healthy police force is important for the economic growth and stability and the development of a country. In South Africa, various potential stressors, such as a high crime level. organisational transformation and a lack of resources challenge members of the police services. …
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Supply chain management system challenges in the eThekwini District of the South African Police Service
… at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Inclusivity and support for employees living with disabilities in the South African Police Service (SAPS)
… of employees living with disabilities in the South African Police Service (SAPS). Globally, there has been a lot of research conducted on diversity in the workplace; however, research on inclusivity is a rather new phenomenon. A theoretical model on inclusion and diversity in work groups is …
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Constructing the gap between past and present literacy practices in the South African Police Service
… past and present literacy practices in the South African Police Service (SAPS)?" To answer the research question, ethnographic methods were employed to gather data in a police station on the Cape Flats, renamed Phatisanani police station. In researching the gap between past and present …
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The challenges in the implementation of crime prevention strateg by South African Police Service, Limpopo Province
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is required by the constitution to prevent, investigate, and combat crimes that are likely to occur in communities. The study provided information on the difficulties the South African Police Service, Limpopo Province, faces in putting its crime prevention …
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Police service delivery challenges experienced by the South African police service station commanders in the Western Cape
South Africa is known for being a country with high crime rates. Many factors contribute to this notion. Cape Town is ranked 14th on the list of the most violent cities in the world. Furthermore, gang violence in the Western Cape is believed to be the highest in South Africa, with the South African …
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Client perception of service delivery in the South African Police Service commmunity service centres in the greater Durban area
… Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2011.
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The impact of organisational culture on organisational citizenship behaviour within the South African Police Service in the Western Cape
… impact that the organisational culture of the South African Police Service, as an organisation, has on the Organisational Citizenship Behaviour of its members in the Western Cape. The empirical study involved the participation of 127 respondents from three of the largest police stations in the …
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Development of an intervention for orphans after the death of a parent on duty as a member of the South African Police Service
Various challenges confront South Africa, including tragic deaths due to murders, accidents, and suicide. The South African Police Service (SAPS) experiences a significant loss of personnel annually due to the prevalence of violent crime in the country, leaving behind a number of orphaned children …
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“Because the country says they have to change” : an analysis of a diversity intervention and its effects on a South African Police Service station
… from apartheid to a constitutional democracy in South Africa, brought with it a plethora of questions concerning ideas of nationhood, citizenship, and organisational transformation. Integrally caught up in the revolution, the South Africa Police Service (SAPS) faces transformative challenges on …
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Decentralising the South African Police Service: Does South Africa's current public safety crisis and the de facto decentralising of policing necessitate a critical evaluation of its present policing model?
Violent crime in South Africa has reached epidemic levels, and something needs to be done about it as a matter of urgency. While the huge socio-economic inequalities in South Africa remain the main cause of crime in South Africa, the focus of this dissertation is on the inefficient, ineffective and …
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Reflections on the evolving jurisprudence concerning the presence of the accused : focusing on National Commissioner of the South African Police Service v Southern African Human Rights Litigation Centre and Another
On 30 October 2014 South Africa's Constitutional Court unanimously stated that the South African Police Service was obligated to investigate allegations of torture in Zimbabwe. This landmark decision, based on South Africa's international obligations and domestic legislation, is rooted in the …
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Community perceptions of South African Police Service responses to substance use and the impacts on health and well-being of community leaders and substance users in a peri-urban community in Cape Town.
In South Africa, high levels of drug-related crime, including drug dealing, theft, and possession alongside widespread substance use and a history of violent police interventions in communities, reflect ineffective policing. Reports frequently highlight corrupt policing and police involvement in …
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Assessing quality of existing data sources on road traffic injuries (RTIs) and their utility in informing injury prevention in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… the quality of the RTI data collected by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and mortuaries was sufficient for determining the burden of RTIs in the Western Cape province, and for implementing and monitoring road safety interventions.
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Untangling the determinants of crime in South Africa
… and infrastructural factors and crime in South Africa. Using the five March waves, 2003 to 2007, of the Labour Force Survey and crime statistics for the five-year period from April 2003 to March 2008 from the South African Police Service, this paper examines factors associated with …
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Determinants of estimated face composite quality
… of an investigative tool commonly used by police forces around the world, namely a face composite or facial likeness. The process of constructing a composite involves a number of cognitive elements, all of which contribute to the final composite quality. This thesis examines elements of the …
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Recent discourses on vigilantism within South Africa
Reports of vigilantism are common in South African media today, where it is portrayed as a growing trend of reactionary violence against the perception of a high crime rate in the country and a criminal justice system which is failing the public. At the same time, the South African Police Service …
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Public crime, private justice : the tale of how one of South Africa’s top private investigators gets impressive results and what lessons the men and women of the public police force and the SAPS as an institution might learn from this
The role of the police is a fundamental one in any society and in South Africa this role is beset with a unique set of challenges which are organisational, institutional, operational, individual and political in nature. It is these I address by means of examining the South African Police Service …
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Military deployment and stress : an empirical survey in the SANDF's operational military personnel of the Western Cape
… the psychological impact of deployment of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) military operational personnel to community policing duties of crime and violence in the Western Cape. It is primarily motivated by the fact that, apart from the inherently stressful nature of military …
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