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    Default 40% of Gauteng cops don't have driver's licenses

    http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/201...licence-report

    Forty percent of cops have no drivers' licence: report

    Sapa | 05 April, 2013 09:24

    Nearly 40% of Gauteng police do not have drivers' licences, according to a report.

    The Star newspaper reported on Friday that Community safety MEC Faith Mazibuko told the Gauteng Legislature that 11 611 SA Police Service (SAPS) operational members in the province did not have drivers' licences, compared to 18 872 who did, according to the report.

    Mazibuko said 60 percent of those without licences were functional members working outside police stations as crew on response and sector vehicles, client service centres, as guards at cells and courts, at roadblocks and as domestic violence co-ordinators.

    Democratic Alliance Gauteng provincial leader John Moody, who asked the question in the legislature, said it was "an explicit requirement for employment under the SAPS Act" to have a valid driving licence.

    Department of community safety spokesman Thapelo Moiloa said members were deployed as Mazibuko said.

    "However, it is a worrying factor [that] in the event that they are requested to drive attending to scenes of crime, this would compromise the safety of other drivers on Gauteng roads," Moiloa told the newspaper.

    SAPS Gauteng said police no longer required licences.

    "Since 2007, the SAPS nationally began to relax the mandatory requirement for a licence from applicants for employment in the SAPS," Colonel Nxolo Kweza was quoted as saying.

    "In 2009, the licence requirement was then removed as a requirement for recruits as an entry-level constable."
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    Words just fail.

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    Default Re: 40% of Gauteng cops don't have driver's licenses

    No wonder they cant come out to your house after a crime has been committed, they are not allowed to drive illegally :)

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    Default Re: 40% of Gauteng cops don't have driver's licenses

    Quote Originally Posted by Gunna View Post
    Words just fail.
    x2

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    As much as I am aware that there a lot of hardworking and dedicated policemen/women in the force, there are a huge amount without basic education and another huge amount who are there because they can't get another job. I think the fact that 40% of them don't have driving licences is a small issue when compared to the major problem.

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    Default Re: 40% of Gauteng cops don't have driver's licenses

    "license please sir"

    "fokof, you first"

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    Default Re: 40% of Gauteng cops don't have driver's licenses

    Luckily this problem is just in Gauteng, in the Freestate cops do not respond to a scene because they have no vehicles.

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    Default Re: 40% of Gauteng cops don't have driver's licenses

    Quote Originally Posted by Messor View Post
    Luckily this problem is just in Gauteng, in the Freestate cops do not respond to a scene because they have no vehicles.
    This is probably the reason for relaxing the requirment

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    Default Re: 40% of Gauteng cops don't have driver's licenses

    Quote Originally Posted by Messor View Post
    Luckily this problem is just in Gauteng, in the Freestate cops do not respond to a scene because they have no vehicles.
    You don't need a licence to drive in the Freestate... just nerves.

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