A report published by the Mail & Guardian indicates that an average of one policeman per day is arrested for crime in South Africa.

According to The Mail & Guardian:

there were approximately 5 090 civil claims against the SAPS in the 2011/12 financial year at a cost of over R13-million to the state attorney’s office.

The arrests, made between September 2010 and April this year, have apparently spurred police management to start cleaning up “the system.”

Gauteng police commissioner, Mzwandile Petros reacted to the report at the latest New Age Breakfast.

It takes two years to train a police official. Even if we are left with 10, or one police official, that is how far we are going to take the campaign.

Police crime and brutality has come under the spotlight in the last year, with indications of unlawful enforcement at the so called “Killing Koppie” of Marikana, and filmed incidents of police violence against immigrants like Emidio Macia, which resulted in the arrest of nine police officers.

[Source: Mail & Guardian]