Nakampe Michael Masiapata

Ethics and Ethos in the South African Police Service: Jhb Central: Ethics and Ethos in the South African Police Service: an Overview of the ... Station Within the Crime Prevention Unit. Nakampe Michael Masiapata

Section 195 (1)(a) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 provides that, in Public Administration, a high standard of professional ethics must be promoted and maintained. The South African Police Service's Code of Conduct (1997) provides that the police service should work actively towards preventing any form of corruption and bringing those quilty of unethical conduct to justice". The Service Integrity Framework of the SAPS Strategic Plan Document (2002/5) provides that "police officers should be encouraged to resist and expose any form of unethical conduct and to improve management and supervision thereof". This means that the individual police officers should display a high level of professional ethics in the provision of safety and security to members of the public. However according to the Indepent Complaints Directorate's Annual Report (2003/4) "there is a rising levels of unethical conduct amongst individual police officers nationally". This dissertation aims to analyse the implementation of an ethical framework in the SAPS with specific reference to the Crime Prevention Unit in the JHB Central Police"