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"Police National Commissioner Bheki Cele will soon be referred to as "general", he said in Johannesburg on Thursday.
"It will not be a distant future when you will be speaking to 'general' rather than 'commissioner'," Cele said at a media briefing following the launch of a television programme to be used in the fight against crime.Moves to change the ranks within the police force were under way after President Jacob Zuma made the call earlier this year.
"The process is under way ... internally we are almost there."
Deputy national commissioners Hamilton Hlela and Magda Stander were compiling the changes to the ranks and these would be submitted to Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa soon.
Stander, speaking on the sidelines of the briefing, said the ranks were "demilitarised" in 1995 and this had an impact on the South African Police Service.
"We demilitarised the ranks in 1995 and that impacted on discipline ... there is lots of confusion because sometimes people ... talk about inspectors ... inspectors are supposed to be on buses."
Ah, no love, buses have conductors, like orchestras. Police services have inspectors and detectives, not generals.
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I was just reading a bit of the ANC Today on the topic, and it started with this little quote from JZ which really got on my nerves: 'Crime situation in our country is bad, but we are not saying it is way beyond other countries in the world. It is much safer to walk in our streets than of many other countries in the world. However, we do not want to tolerate any crime, even if our levels are lower than of other countries.'
So we need to send out the message that our police force needs to be militarist, but we still need to make out as if we do not have a really serious crime problem?
What is there still to gain in denial!?
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