NCC demands action on police salary deductions

THE National Coloured Congress's (NCC) Fadiel Adams, who is a member of the Portfolio Committee on Police, has confirmed they are investigating the rental deductions from police officers’ salaries for barracks they no longer live in, leaving some with just R28 to get by for the month.

- GENEVIEVE SERRA

“The NCC is investigating, we do not have all the facts yet, we are still waiting on departmental responses,” Adams told the Cape Argus.

“For a police force that is already short-staffed, under pressure and demoralised, this is probably the best way to put people off from doing their duties.

“You are giving people strain they do not need, people cannot pay their rent and their school fees.

“These people do not have petrol in their cars to get to work and you still expect them to deliver.

“Our communities are suffering because SAPS top management is failing abysmally.

“As the NCC, we are starting to believe that there is a deliberate attempt to collapse the South African Police Service.”

Earlier this week, the Cape Argus broke the story of the plight of the police officers who were tenants at Parkhof Flats in Kenilworth.