Unfit Police To Be Enrolled Into Health And Fitness Programme: Saps

The South African Police Service SAPS says it will identify unfit members for enrollment into a health and fitness programme.

This came out on the last day of the three-day National Policing Summit in Ekurhuleni.

The summit was convened to deliberate on new and advanced policing and crime fighting strategies. Major-General Busi Temba from SAPS Human Resource Management, says members enrolled in the programme will undergo grueling physical fitness activities.

We are also looking at embarking on programmes like your biggest loser programme for our members, I dont know where morbidly obese because we do have members were in some instances when they are wearing uniform it doesnt look so good. So, we are saying we will identify those members in partnership with our health partners so those members are put into a programme where they will embark on activities and at the end of the programme there will be an assessment of the before and after, Temba comments.

Meanwhile, Gauteng Police Commissioner Tommy Mthombeni says they are closing in on some of the most wanted criminal syndicates and kingpins operating in the province. He says that of the more than 400 wanted suspects, they managed to arrest or eliminate at least 100.