ANC NEC wants lifestyle audits to be carried out on top cops, NPA leadership

The African National Congress (ANC)’s National Executive Committee (NEC) wants lifestyle audits to be carried out on the police’s top brass and leadership of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula said the testimony emerging from the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry and Parliament’s ad hoc committee on South African Police Service (SAPS) corruption necessitates immediate reform.

Briefing on the outcomes of the party’s NEC meeting over the weekend, Mbalula said the ANC wants to see reform being instituted as the police commission unfolds.

He said President Cyril Ramaphosa must ensure his Cabinet have all faced financial scrutiny if they are to successfully institute lifestyle audits in their own departments.

“Lifestyle audits start with the president, and all Cabinet and at the same time in all the provinces this must be undertaken. This must go to the public service - the police, prosecutorial people, and senior police must undergo lifestyle audit. That is our decision.”

Mbalula said the SAPS must also be demilitarised

“This thing of general titles and all of that. We must go back to the Constitution. Demilitarise the police and ensure the police are given their correct accolades, like commissioner of police like it is prescribed in the Constitution of the land.”

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