The South African Policing Union (SAPU) was established in November 1993 and has an extensive membership within the

policing The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...

cluster which includes the

South African Police Service The South African Police Service (SAPS) is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. Its 1,154 police stations in South Africa are divided according to the provincial borders, and a Provincial Commissioner is appointed in eac ...

(SAPS), Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Metro Police Departments and Traffic Departments. SAPU is a participating

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in the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) and the Safety and Security Sectoral Bargaining Council (SSSBC) where transverse and sector

employee Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any other ...

issues are negotiated. On December 23, 2020, Peter Ntsime, the Acting Deputy General Secretary of SAPU, declared that SAPS' image was tainted the previous when Colonel Kamelash Dalip Singh, a senior SAPU policeman from the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Anti-Corruption Unit, was arrested, and then released on bail, on a bribe charge. Ntsime claimed Singh was at the forefront of arresting crooked police officers and was onto a big syndicate. Despite a statement from Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) spokesperson Captain Simphiwe Mhlongo that undercover Hawks cops caught Singh red-handed accepting a R5,000 bribe, people took to social media to join Ntsime in criticizing his arrest as well.

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* http://www.csvr.org.za/wits/papers/papmmna.htm {{Portal, Organized labour Trade unions in South Africa Law enforcement in South Africa