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- Title
CROWD CONTROL: Can our public order police still deliver?
- Authors
Omar, Bilkis
- Abstract
From the heavy-handed crowd control under apartheid to the abusive actions of the Internal Stability Division during the early 1990s, public order policing in South Africa has been steeped in controversy. However, things changed after 1994 when this component of the police was radically transformed. With a decline in demand for their specialised services, and a need for more resources, the units have been reorganised into Area Crime Combating Units (ACCUs). While no doubt helping to reduce crime, it is unclear whether the SAPS still has the capacity to manage the increasing number of volatile crowd situations.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; CROWD control; POLICE administration; TRAFFIC engineering; PUBLIC policy (Law); APARTHEID; CRIMINAL justice system
- Publication
SA Crime Quarterly, 2006, Issue 15, p7
- ISSN
1991-3877
- Publication type
Article