GREATER awareness needs to be done in rural areas to educate people of their rights so they can lay complaints against police misconduct, a senior police officer says.
Internal investigation director Chief Supt Victor Isouve said many people who were illiterate were vulnerable to police mistreatment and abuse because they did not know their rights to justice compared with educated citizens. “That barrier can be eliminated by a wide-scale awareness in rural areas,” Isouve said. He said once a complaint was made, they would investigate policemen and women for misconduct or breach of rules. They could be charged criminally or administratively. “One of the drawbacks in policing police misconduct is the lack of manpower and money,” Isouve said. “A number of allegations related to senior provincial police officers are pending for many years because of those issues. I’ve got only a handful of people on the other side of investigation.”
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