Traffic cops make the list of most corrupt
ABUSE of public resources, cheating in procurement at local government level and bribery of traffic officials are at the top of the list of South Africans' concerns about corruption.
LIVID: Edna MamonyaneBribes paid to traffic officers on the street is corruption, but it costs the motorist. We are working tirelessly to root out these practices in the JMPD
According to Corruption Watch's Janine Rauch the initiative, which was launched in January, had received 945 corruption reports by the end of September, an average of about 105 reports a month.
Corruption relating to municipalities accounted for 25% of the reports, while corruption relating to traffic police and the licensing department accounted for 14%.
The National Anti Corruption Hotline (NACH) received 7922 complaints between 2004 and 2010, an average of 141 reports a month.
The City of Johannesburg joined forces with Corruption Watch last week to help residents report suspicious incidents. Chief of Police Chris Ngcobo said the Johannesburg Metro Police Department lost more than R56-million to corrupt practices last year alone, and that about 12 corrupt officers had lost their jobs.
JMPD spokeswoman Edna Mamonyane said: "When we talk of corruption that costs the taxpayer, we are talking about money due to the city. It is people working in licensing, people working with vehicle registration documents and cashiers who will take a cheque from a motorist and replace it with a fake cheque that bounces later when the city wants to process it.
"Bribes paid to traffic officers on the street is corruption, but it costs the motorist. We are working tirelessly to root out these practices in the JMPD."
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MGEEZ
RSA idinga uJesu kuphela!!!!Report Abuse
Pointman
Weaning police officers off bribes is as hard as weaning a druggie off cocaine. When you see an off duty officer driving a BMW, you know something is not right. The question is why did they let the rot set in before acting.Report Abuse
Smartone
Traffic cops..taking bribes..Really???/No man....never. Then this would explain why the carnage on our roads,and the need for real driver education. Take a llook at the pics and videos of real accidents happening on the website wwwfatalmovesdotcom. Also has life saving info.wwwfatalmovesdotcom..creating safer roadsReport Abuse
cornelius
No Madam spokeswoman, when a traffic cop takes a bribe of R 50 instead of issuing a ticket of R 500, the motorist is scoring and the ratepayers are losing. Jeez, if you don't understand that, how can you be in such a high position ? No wonder corruption is so high if government officials don't understand the basic principles.Report Abuse
Vhamsanda
Not all traffic cops take bribes. I only exchange phone numbers with the female ones. This is not corruption.Report Abuse
2shy2call
If your now president took a bribe of R500 000 when he was a deputy president what will make a merely traffic cop live one.Its not a magic we know about that Mzansi PAPA.
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mashima?
Mrs/Ms spokesperson may you please come out first, during your time how many/much have you done. Mo go gatilego tlhako ya pele le ya morago eya gata sesi, this is the culture of your department and you do nothing about it.Report Abuse
scrapprat
she looks corrupt because she is wearing a corruption uniformReport Abuse
madimetsha
No news here.............its always been like that, hence drivers licences are bought, testing is a formailty.......government will find it very difficult to root out corruption in Municiplaities and Gov departs, simple reason that those are the same people who put them in power.......if I expose their corruption, you will be recalled/never see another term...........get the PRIVATE SECTOR to run the government operations and only have cabinet deciding on policies....Report Abuse
VENDALIOUS
I have just bribed the traffic officer this morning for not stoping @ the stop sign.Report Abuse
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