Phiyega promises to find Durban cop killers:Friday 1 May 2015. National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega says her department is working hard to strengthen safety measures for police officers.
(SABC) National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega says police will leave no stone unturned in arresting those involved in the murder of three officers who were killed in two separate incidents in KwaZulu-Natal. All three officers were killed on duty. Phiyega and her delegation visited the families of the three deceased officers. "The tears and the pain are unbearable. The officers were fatally shot in two separate incidents. In the other incident two constables, Zamokwanda Majoka and Mpendulo Jaca, were responding to an armed robbery when unknown men opened fire on their vehicle at Harding in the south of the province. Phiyega says two suspects have been taken in for questioning in connection with the murder of Mbele and three illegal firearms have been confiscated, "We have done everything as we have indicated to the families.
Phiyega monitors police crimes:Monday 30 September 2013. National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega.
(SABC) National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega says she's monitoring the arrest of police personnel for suspected criminal activities on a weekly basis to ensure action is taken. Phiyega was speaking in Mahikeng where over 40 members of the police were being awarded for long service. She reacted to reports that almost 200 police had been arrested in July and August for crimes ranging from murder, rape and robbery to corruption and possession of drugs. “I have introduced monitoring of some of these incidents, I receive a weekly report that will tell me how many police we have arrested for that week, where we have arrested them, which stations, which provinces and it will also give an analysis of the nature of crimes that they are involved in but not only that, I want to know what happened, what have we done internally etc,” said Phiyega. "There should never ever be a SAPS member who is arrested and charged with any crime at all.
SAPS shocked by accusations against Phiyega:Saturday 28 March 2015. SAPS National Commissioner Riah Phiyega has been accused of interfering in the case against the prosecutions boss.
(SABC) The South African Police Service (SAPS) says it is shocked by the accusations against National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega. On Friday, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said the intervention of Phiyega in the case against deputy prosecutions boss Nomgcobo Jiba is worrying. Addressing a briefing, NPA head Mxolisi Nxasana said a perception is created that Jiba is being protected at all costs. Nxasana said he received a call from Phiyega after senior police officers delivered a summons against Jiba. The issue of contention is the timing of this action in the absence of prima facie evidence The charges against Jiba relate to her failed bid to lay murder and racketeering charges against suspended KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Johan Booysen. "The issue of contention is the timing of this action in the absence of prima facie evidence. " Phiyega confronted me over false allegations, cop tells Commission:Wednesday 26 March 2014. The commission is investigating the circumstances surrounding 44 deaths at Lonmin's platinum mining operations at Marikana.
(SABC) North West air wing commander Lieutenant colonel Salmon Vermaak was confronted by National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega with a set of false allegations as he prepared to testify before the Farlam Commission of Inquiry. On Wednesday, Vermaak told the commission he was summoned to Phiyega's Pretoria offices in January 2013 where the police chief put across a set of false allegations from unnamed sources. "The things that the national commissioner was concerned about... was that there was an allegation that I had bragged at a braai about people we shot from a helicopter during the Marikana shootings in 2012. I asked her who had made the allegation and she said she wouldn't let me know. He was led in giving evidence at the commission by evidence leader Kameshni Pillay.
"For the past 12 years, I do not carry a permanent firearm with me.