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Original Post Date: 2008-06-28 Time: 15:00:00 Posted By: Jan
South Africa’s thin blue line was given a major boost with the passing out parade of thousands of new police recruits in Pretoria.
Friday’s parade at the Pretoria West Police Training College saw 2 124 student constables completing their first six months basic training. They are among 4 315 students throughout the country who recently completed their basic police training.
The new recruits learned, among other techniques critical to policing, orientation to the SAPS, Criminal Procedure Act, common and statutory law, the criminal justice system and law of evidence, crime prevention, crime investigation, street survival, use of firearms, computer literacy, handcuffing and how to search suspects.
The trainees will be deployed to police stations for six months of field training. On completion of their training, they will be on a one year’s probation during which they will be assessed, with the competent trainees being awarded a national certificate in policing.
Deputy Police Commissioner Mala Singh, in welcoming the students to the police service, said the day was the highlight of their careers.
She warned the students that their careers depended on their attitude, determination and commitment.
“Be warned that this career offers many challenges and can be a thankless and unrewarding profession where you can often be criticised, in most cases unjustifiably so, and where your work, which is often life-threatening, goes unappreciated,” she said.
She said corrupt members would not be tolerated in the service. “There will be times when you will be enticed, encouraged or tempted into the life of crime and corruption, but be warned criminality and the police do not go together.”
Singh urged the new recruits to blow the whistle on crime “even on your colleagues”, adding that by sticking to the straight and narrow, rewards would find them.
“You have chosen a noble and honourable profession,” she said.