With an average of nine suspects killed each month by the South African Police Service (SAPS) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) between July 2023 and July 2024, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for the urgent use of body cameras to monitor police-public interactions, amongst other interventions.
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu gave the police killings numbers in response to a DA National Council of Provinces (NCOP) parliamentary question. The reply further reveals that one police officer was arrested during the same period for alleged involvement in the killing/s.
KZN consistently features as the province with the highest number of killings as a result of police action. Between 2022/23, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) reported that 108 suspects were killed by the SAPS in KZN. This while South Africa as a whole recorded 364 deaths.
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