{"id":12208,"date":"2025-07-01T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/arrest-of-senior-officials-in-the-sa-police-service-could-weaken-public-trust\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:40","slug":"arrest-of-senior-officials-in-the-sa-police-service-could-weaken-public-trust","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/arrest-of-senior-officials-in-the-sa-police-service-could-weaken-public-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of senior officials in the SA Police Service could weaken public trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This also include the arrest of the boss of the Crime Intelligence Unit will. IPUSAsays the recent arrests will weaken public trust in law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Police Minister Senzo Mchunu this past weekend rejected media claims of an impending arrest of National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola.<\/p>\n<p>The speculation arose from allegations of irregular procurement involving crime intelligence buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The National Prosecuting Authority&#8217;s Investigating Directorate against Corruption has backed the Minister&#8217;s statement, dismissing the reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12209,"template":"default||default||default||default||default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-12208","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Independent Policing Union of South Africa (IPUSA) is concerned that the recent arrest of Senior Officials from the South African Police Service (SAPS).||The Independent Policing Union of South Africa (IPUSA) is concerned that the recent arrest of Senior Officials from the South African Police Service (SAPS).||The Independent Policing Union of South Africa (IPUSA) is concerned that the recent arrest of Senior Officials from the South African Police Service (SAPS).||The Independent Policing Union of South Africa (IPUSA) is concerned that the recent arrest of Senior Officials from the South African Police Service (SAPS).||The Independent Policing Union of South Africa (IPUSA) is concerned that the recent arrest of Senior Officials from the South African Police Service (SAPS).||The Independent Policing Union of South Africa (IPUSA) is concerned that the recent arrest of Senior Officials from the South African Police Service (SAPS).||The Independent Policing Union of South Africa (IPUSA) is concerned that the recent arrest of Senior Officials from the South African Police Service (SAPS).||The Independent Policing Union of South Africa (IPUSA) is concerned that the recent arrest of Senior Officials from the South African Police Service (SAPS).","published_date":"2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17933,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12208\/revisions\/17933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}