Money Won't Solve Systematic Issues

When accused of not doing your job properly, one of the best ways to divert attention is to claim you don't have enough money to carry out your tasks...and that you therefore need buckets of it to turn things around.

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That, effectively, is what the chair of the parliamentary portfolio committee on police, Ian Cameron, is accusing the management of the South African Police Service's forensic science laboratory of doing.

The section has allowed the backlog in DNA tests to balloon to more than 140,000 which, it goes without saying, means many rapists and others guilty of physical crimes will go unpunished.