Lebeya: Hawks making inroads in curbing attacks on police officers
The unit held a briefing on Sunday to give an update on the progress it had made in the first quarter of the 2024/25 financial year.
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JOHANNESBURG - The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, the Hawks, said it was making inroads in curbing attacks on police officers.
The unit held a briefing on Sunday to give an update on the progress it had made in the first quarter of the 2024/25 financial year.
In August last year, police crime research and stats head, Norman Sekhukhune, told Parliament's portfolio committee on police that 31 police officers were killed between April and June of 2023.
The figure is nearly double the number of officers killed by criminals during the same period in 2022.
Hawks head Godfrey Lebeya said that 18 arrests had been linked to unwarranted violence against officers.
"An attack on a police official is an attack of undermining the authority of the state. The DPCI shall effectively continue to respond to these crimes. Twenty-one members were killed in the first quarter of the 24/25 financial year, with 16 of those having been killed while off-duty and five while on duty."