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 people empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself. This commonly includes ensuring the safety, health, and possessions of citizen ...

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 Provinces of South Africa, provincial borders, and a Provincial Commis ...

(SAPS), Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Metro Police Departments and Traffic Departments. SAPU is a participating union 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 party (law), parties Regulation, regulating the provision of paid Labour (human activity), labour services. Usually based on a employment contract, contract, one party, the employer, which might be a cor ...

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