Mchunu outlines key outcomes, priorities for SAPS following police summit
The country’s first policing summit provided an opportunity for police to engage and strengthen their ties with the private sector.
Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu at the Police Summit, held at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park, Johannesburg on 8 April 2025. Picture: Katlego Jiyane/EWN
JOHANNESBURG - Strengthening crime intelligence, improving technology, and capacitating and upskilling detectives are some of the key takeaways from the policing summit.
The three-day summit, which saw police management engage with the private sector, was concluded in Kempton Park on Thursday.
Police top brass engaged the media on some of the key takeaways from the summit at a briefing in Pretoria on Friday morning.
The country’s first policing summit provided an opportunity for police to engage and strengthen their ties with the private sector.
During the briefing, Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu outlined some of the key outcomes from the summit.
"Our top priorities are reducing murder, removing unnecessary firearms from communities, removing drugs, fighting gender-based violence and femicide, together with other roleplayers."
Mchunu emphasised that special focus would be paid to four provinces identified as hotspots, namely, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, and Western Cape.
Police could not provide a timeline for when certain initiatives, such as digitising the docket management system and establishing forensic labs in each province, will be actioned.