“The entire justice system is broken and SAPS is responsible.” – “Police lose 8 million pieces of evidence”- https://youtu.be/Oe9G0O587sQ

Sources;

http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPPHC/2019/6.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F1a1yi-ud3KM3dZafhhqG6aABhdeQ0hS/view

“Police lose 8 million pieces of evidence” - https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/police-lose-8-million-pieces-of-evidence-20210306

“SAPS shocker: Up to eight million pieces of evidence lost ‘due to IT fault’” - https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thesouthafrican.com%2fnews%2fsaps-lose-evidence-eight-million-pieces-reports%2f&d=4121621504777&mkt=en-IN&setlang=en-US&w=tNo-SNTq_H4TsiADBLsEscP036d47obJ [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/saps-lose-evidence-eight-million-pieces-reports/]. Below are few excerpts.

It may be one the most catastrophic failures in SAPS' history - and that's some going: Officials are 'struggling to account' for a raft of missing evidence.

As far as mistakes in the workplace go, we doubt many will be costlier than this: Media reports that surfaced on Sunday claim ‘up to eight million pieces of forensic evidence’ have been lost by SAPS, due to its dodgy IT equipment.

The digital facility holding the crucial records – including DNA samples and crucial pieces of evidence used in GBV cases – has apparently gone offline, after first encountering technical issues in the middle of 2020.

Professionals who are part of the data collection teams ‘can no longer say with certainty’ where these crucial exhibits can now be found, and thousands of criminal cases could collapse as a result of this catastrophic error.

This issue isn’t news to the Action Society group, however. The activists have been tracking this loss of evidence since June 2020, claiming that over 170 000 cases are now in jeopardy as a result of the IT failures. It’s understood that a ‘DNA backlog’ has piled up over the past nine months, allowing some of SA’s most heinous criminals ‘to walk free’:

“Due to on-going problems regarding the processing of DNA samples, vital evidence required to convict perpetrators of GBV [gender based violence] is blocked from entering the courts. SAPS system used to capture and track DNA evidence has been switched off.”

“Rapists and murderers are not being prosecuted. They have free reign. Without fear of repercussion, they are roaming our streets, scornfully walking past their victim’s houses… All because SAPS has crippled the DNA evidence system and wrongdoers now cannot be convicted for their atrocious crimes. It has been down for a year now.”

“SAPS has committed TREASON and people are dying.”- https://youtu.be/JypHagjjmk8

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“Guns of slain Cape officers found among firearms haul” - https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/guns-of-slain-cape-officers-found-among-firearms-haul-a92ee557-dfcd-4ef0-815f-ee0a459bb6f6. Below are a few excerpts.

One of the nine suspects arrested in connection with the murder of two police officers in Bloekombos is allegedly also a police constable.

The arrest of the nine suspects came after an operation comprising members attached to the Western Cape Crime Intelligence, Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, Flying Squad and the Tactical Response Team descended on a number of residences, where they positively identified two firearms belonging to the police officers that were ambushed, shot and killed while patrolling in Bloekombos near Kraaifontein last Sunday.

The officer, who did not want to be named, said most of the firearms recovered on the streets from criminals were already previously meant to be destroyed, “which was shocking, making our job difficult because we have to apply for new serial numbers before they could be forfeited to the state and destroyed again”.

Gun Free SA director Adèle Kirsten said the theft of police guns was common and a very good example of how legal guns move into the illegal market. She said this was of great concern.

“Cops used deadly and prohibited ammunition to kill Nateniël Julies, court hears” - https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/cops-used-deadly-and-prohibited-ammunition-to-kill-nathaniel-julies-court-hears-20200922. Below are a few excerpts.

The Protea Magistrate’s Court in Soweto has been told how a police officer allegedly loaded the deadly and prohibited ammunition used to shoot dead 16-year-old Nateniel Julies.

The ammunition, which has been declared unlawful by the state was reportedly loaded, by Sergeant Simon Scorpion Ndyalvane, into a firearm belonging to the Eldorado Park police station, the court heard.

In a statement prepared by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate senior investigator Johannes Mathoko, the court was told how Ndyalvane booked out a shotgun from his workplace and loaded it with his own ammunition.