Popcru threatens legal action over increasing COVID-19 cases among members

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Pocru claims that officers risked their lives and the managers should be held responsible for increasing the number of COVID-19 infections in the criminal justice cluster.

JOHANNESBURG - The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union has threatened to institute criminal charges against station commanders for what it calls the total disregard of the Disaster Management Act.

At the last count, the latest figures of COVID-19 within the criminal justice cluster stands at 9,879. Popcru has raised accused some provincial commissioner and station commanders of flouting regulations and putting their interests before the health and well-being of officers.

 

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