{"id":11670,"date":"2013-11-13T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T11:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11670"},"modified":"2013-11-13T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T11:46:40","slug":"criticism-of-police-a-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11670","title":{"rendered":"Criticism of police a security threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11671\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MK_soldiers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671\" alt=\"MK soldiers parading under images of Mandela and Mbeki\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MK_soldiers-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MK_soldiers-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MK_soldiers.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MK soldiers parading under images of Mandela and Mbeki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attacking the police&#8217;s crime intelligence division threatens the country&#8217;s security, the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans&#8217; Association said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The various allegations levelled at the leadership of crime intelligence division&#8230; and the clear turf battles seeming to be raging&#8230; is a threat to the security, peace and stability of our country,&#8221; MKMVA chairman Kebby Maphatsoe told reporters in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said generals and colonels who served in the apartheid-era security intelligence had retired at the dawn of democracy and established private intelligence institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;These are trained people&#8230;. Those generals are paraded as experts on crime fighting and have the audacity to regularly bash the SA Police Service, especially its crime intelligence division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said civil society had been against the establishment of a crime intelligence unit, and was intent on discrediting the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He singled out former crime intelligence head Richard Mdluli as an example of this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Civil society has been against him returning to perform his duty as a policeman. It is dangerous. We will wake up one morning to an uprising and question why did it go about without being detected.&#8221; &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacking the police&#8217;s crime intelligence division threatens the country&#8217;s security, the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans&#8217; Association said on Monday. &#8220;The various allegations levelled at the leadership of crime intelligence division&#8230; and the clear turf battles seeming to be raging&#8230; is a threat to the security, peace and stability of our country,&#8221; MKMVA chairman Kebby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Criticism of police a security threat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[164,3971,7372,205,3972,210,7373],"class_list":["post-11670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-apartheid","tag-crime-intelligence","tag-mkmva","tag-police","tag-richard-mdluli","tag-saps","tag-umkhonto-we-sizwe-military-veterans-association"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MK_soldiers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11672,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions\/11672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}