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The threat of crime, whether from an individual rapist or a terrorist group, appears to be pushing this country ineluctably towards the presumption of guilt.
An outstanding example of this trend is yesterday's proposal by an Appeal Court judge that the DNA profiles of the entire population be kept on the national criminal database.
In a BBC interview, Sir Stephen Sedley went even further, suggesting that foreign visitors to Britain should be included as well.
Thus, from the latest figures, the police might have DNA records of more than 90 million people on th... Read more
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Independent Online - Cape Town
06 March 2007
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Jackie Selebi has broken his silence amid fresh allegations of corruption against him - slamming them as "downright rubbish of the highest order".
In an exclusive interview, the national police commissioner on Monday suggested corruption and collusion claims could be aimed at toppling him, weakening the police service and disrupting Interpol, of which he is president.
Selebi also spoke candidly about:
FNB's canned anti-crime campaign, which he said was "misdirected energy";
A bold new crime prevention strategy, which will see at least 400 new officers hit the streets of Gauteng; and
His take on the country's crime levels.
"All that's left is for them to tell me is that I've committed suicide," he said at the first day of Interpol's symposium in Kempton Park.
He again denied being linked to the criminal underworld and knowing any of the men levelling the allegations.
Pushed on what could lie behind the claims - the latest reported last week in noseweek - the commissioner said: "There are people in crime who think I know so much because I am the president of Interpol. They think I'm a danger."
He revealed that in the past two weeks a wave of officers performing new crime prevention duties had hit the streets in all but one of the nine provinces.
This follows a string of high-profile murders and attacks that had exposed an angry society fed up with crime.
Selebi's priority was to curb house robberies which led to rapes, murders and hijackings.
"We need to assure people that we are protecting them in their homes."
In Gauteng, 400 police officers had been deployed to patrol the streets of high-risk areas in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and in the suburbs south of Joburg.
These officers, he said, had all the support they needed - including helicopters.
Selebi said office-bound police officials had started volunteering to put on a uniform and patrol streets. In Pretoria, 70 desk-bound officers had begun working like reservists.
Selebi himself is deployed to work at Garsfontein station.
"In a month or two we hope to start seeing a decrease (in crime)," Selebi said.
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