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'Public doesn't trust police o
South Africans don't have much faith in either the police or the government on the question of crime. In fact, their level of trust is among the lowest in Africa.
This is according to Professor Robert Mattes, the director at the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town, who was speaking at a seminar in Pretoria on Friday.
Organised by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), it focused on crime trends and public perceptions.
Mattes said the police were still seen as one of the least trustworthy institutions in the country, ahead only of lo... Read more
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26 November 2007
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Nigeria seeks Britain's help t
Nigeria has asked Britain to help it reform and train its police force, which has drawn international criticism for corruption and brutality, the interior minister said on Monday.
Human rights groups and U.N. experts have accused Nigerian police of killing suspects without justification and torturing those in detention.
Nigeria is also plagued by frequent armed robberies, and motorists complain police roadblocks appear to be more effective at collecting bribes than fighting crime.
Interior Minister Godwin Abbe said Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua had asked British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for help at a Commonwealth summit in Uganda that ended on Sunday.
"The British government is ready to support us in reorganising the Nigeria Police Force and empower it to be able to carry out its assigned role of ensuring law and order," Abbe told reporters after a meeting of security chiefs with Yar'Adua.
Abbe said a committee will soon be set up to work on details of an assistance programme from Nigeria's former colonial ruler.
National police chief Mike Okiro said two weeks ago that police had killed 785 suspected armed robbers in three months and lost 62 of their men, prompting campaigners to call for a probe of the extra-judicial killings.
Armed robbers target private homes, public places and vehicles stuck in traffic jams. They often mount roadblocks to rob people on the highways. Police have made little headway in stopping robberies despite their drastic methods.
Officers routinely torture suspects, shooting them in the legs, beating them and hanging them from the ceiling to extract confessions, a U.N. special rapporteur had said in March.
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