The South African Police Service (SAPS) efforts to bolster service delivery by re-enlisting its former and experienced members with exemplary track records back into its ranks is at an advanced stage.
The re-enlistment process was advertised in the media earlier this year in an effort to fill 1 105 vacant posts. During this process as many as 3 152 applications were received from former SAPS members.
While we had 1 105 posts that needed to be filled, it must be noted that the focus of this exercise was on quality and not quantity. Therefore, from the 3 152 applications received, only 548 former members have been provisionally approved for re-enlistment. Of this number 309 will be deployed to the Visible Policing environment, 192 to Detectives and 47 to the support environment. Some of these members have already commenced with their duties, while others are expected to swell the ranks between now and February 2016.
It is on the basis of the above that only members with no criminal records, no pending criminal cases against them and with a commendable track record of good performance have been recruited.
In addition to the re-enlistment process, the SAPS will be embarking on the recruitment of 4 500 new recruits to be enlisted by March 2016.
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