Law Commission of Canada. 2006. In Search of Security: The Future of Policing in Canada. 
The report examines present-day policing in Canada. Policing is now seen as a network of both public policing and private security.  Both of these overlap to the extent that the difference between public and private policing is much more indistinct than before. Regulation guiding the conduct of policing agencies and the actions of private security officers are not sufficiently subject to accountability mechanisms. In response to these changes in policing, the report of the Law Commission sets out 15 recommendations that enable democratic values of equality and justice to be fully realized by all policing organizations. To inform their research the  Commission consulted with  experts and the general public. An international conference held in Montréal, Québec in February 2003 also informed the report. The Law Commission sought to find out from Canadians what values should be intrinsic to all policing authorities and to discover what balance can be found between public policing and private security, particularly in terms of regulation. As a result of this research, the Law Commission recommends a shift from all levels of government towards a more inclusive notion of policing activities. View Online >>>>

Lumina, Cephas. 2006. Police accountability and policing oversight mechanisms in the Southern African Development Community.  African Security Review 15(1).
This article surveys the various mechanisms for policing oversight in countries within the Southern African Development Community.  View Online >>>>

Human Rights Watch. 2006. Unprotected Migrants Zimbabweans in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. Human Rights Watch 18(6).
The report is based on a Human Rights Watch mission to Limpopo province in April and May 2006. The report states "The Immigration Act is routinely violated. When apprehending suspected undocumented foreigners, police and immigration officials fail to verify their status and identity, and police and military personnel assault and extort money from foreign migrants."  View Online >>>>

Newham, G., Masuku, T. & Dlamini, J.  2006. Diversity and Transformation in the South African Police Service: A study of police perspectives on race, gender and the community in the Johannesburg policing area. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.
This report explores the transformation of SAPS from the early 1990s into a democratic police service reflecting the demographic diversity of South Africa. One of the aims of the report is "to contribute to our understanding of the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of police officers to issues relating to race and gender in both the organisation and the communities they serve".  View Online >>>>

SOUTH AFRICA

Human Rights Watch report slams government
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Irinnews.org 10/08/2006
A telephone hotline for migrants to report a myriad of human rights abuses by the South African police and employers is one of many recommendations a human rights organisation has made to the government.  View details >>>>   

Chiefs talk tough: Top brass vow to get police out of fining mind set and combating crime 
Phindile Chauke. Sunday Times. 18/08/2006
Gauteng's three metro police chiefs are on the warpath. For years their officers have been labelled corrupt, incompetent and interested in little but issuing traffic fines and begging for cooldrinks. Now the top brass have vowed to crack down on ill discipline and focus officers on preventing crime and enforcing municipal bylaws.  
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Rough justice
Buyekezwa Makwabe. Sunday Times. 18/08/2006
Diepsloot residents have no police station — hence they are sometimes forced to adopt a do-it-yourself approach to crime. If they want to report an incident, they either have to go to the Erasmia Police Station in Pretoria, which is 11km away, or call their local Community Policing Forum (CPF). After the CPF is called in, the suspects are beaten “a little bit. View details >>>>

'Community policing forums failed' 
Sapa. Sunday Times. 14/08/2006
Many community policing forums have failed, Business Against Crime (BAC) has said. While they have assisted communities to build better relations with the police, they have frequently faltered owing to a lack of resources. Also the lack of commitment on the side of the police or community members is a problem." the organisation's Gail Wannenburg said in a media statement. View details >>>> 

Police: Cops still on the beat after arrest for extortion
ISS Umqol 06/07/2006
Two members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) who were arrested after it was alleged they were harassing, threatening and extorting money and sex from members of the public, are still on the beat, The Star’s Graeme Hosken writes.  View details >>>>

A town run by rogue police
Anél Powell. Cape Times. www.capetimes.co.za .  25/07/2006
Metro Police chief Bongani Jonas has set a 48-hour deadline for an urgent report of all Metro Police activity in the Helderberg after reports that the area "is in total chaos" and being policed by civilians.  View details >>>>

Probe into police torture claim is suspended 
Sheree Russouw and Kashiefa Ajam. 22/07/2006
The police officers who had allegedly tortured three colleagues with electric prods to force them to "confess" to the multimillion-rand robbery of a police safe in Benoni are unlikely to ever face charges. 
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Tiff between Scorpions and police boils 
Alex Eliseev. The Star. www.iol.co.za . 09/08/2006
The spat between the Scorpions and SA Police Service about an airport bungle has heated up, with police releasing what they call "the facts" about the nasty encounter. View details >>>> 

SADC May absorb regional police organisation 
Angola Press Agency (Luanda). www.allafrica.com . 15/08/2006
MASERU. The Southern Africa Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation (SARPCCO) might become part of the structures of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), should this be decided during the 26th Summit of Heads of State and Government this week in Maseru (Lesotho). View details >>>>

ZIMBABWE

Police crackdown on "money hoarders" 
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Irinnews.org. 04/08/2006 
Zimbabwe's police are being accused of heavy-handedness after setting up roadblocks to seize money from people thought to be trading on the black market. Zimbabweans were thrown into panic on Monday after reserve bank governor Gideon Gono devalued the currency by 1,000 percent, with a three-week deadline for the old currency to be exchanged for new denominations.
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ANGOLA:

Angola: A step towards ending police impunity  
Amnesty International Public statement. 15/08/2006
On 8 August 2006 a police officer was sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment for the deliberate and unlawful killing of a sixteen year old boy.  Amnesty International hopes that this verdict will send a strong message that unlawful killings and other unlawful acts by police officers will not be tolerated.  View details >>>>

SWAZILAND:

Politics makes a tentative comeback  
Irinnews.org. 09/08/2006
MBABANE. While a new royalist party was being launched at a gala event attended by the rich and powerful, the Swazi police were using tear-gas and rubber bullets to break up a rally by an opposition party, demanding a constitutional monarchy.   View details >>>>

ZAMBIA:

Aiming for a free and fair election  
Irinnews.org. 28/07/2006
LUSAKA.  Zambians go to the polls in September in the first test of a new law designed to promote a fair ballot and ease the tensions that boil over at every election.  It is planned to use the Public Order Act in a more equible manner to ensure fair policing.  View details >>>>

Rights group petitions court over prolonged detention of suspects
Lominda Afedraru. Daily Monitor. 18/08/2006
KAMPALA. The Foundation for Human Rights Initiative has petitioned the Constitutional Court challenging various provisions of the law that infringe on the rights of suspects and detainees in custody for longer periods than is provided for by law. Sewanyana says they found out that suspects are detained in police stations for periods exceeding the limit set under Article 23(4) of the Constitution purportedly on authority set under Section 25(2) of Police Act. The Act gives the police powers to detain suspects up to seven days without being charged.  View details >>>>

The International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) "Urbanisation and Security"will be held in Dubai on April 8-12, 2007.  The symposium will look at critical security issues governments are confronted with, rapid urban growth, urban crime and public safety, the role of private security in urban public safety, amongst others. For further information, please visit www.ipes.info or contact Dr. Dilip K. Das at    View details >>>>

Non-State Actors as Standard Setters: The Erosion of the Public-Private Divide. The Basel Institute on Governance is holding a two-day conference on “Non-State Actors as Standard Setters: The Erosion of the Public-Private Divide”, dedicated to the analysis of the role of non-state actors and emerging political arenas that shape norms and standards of the public sphere. The conference will be held in Basel, Switzerland, 8 - 9 Feb. 2007. View details >>>>

The 6th Biennial International Criminal Justice Conference: Policing in Central and Eastern Europe - Past, Present and Future is to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 21-23, 2006. Sponsored by the University of Maribor, Slovenia. More information is available on the website: www.fpvv.uni-mb.si/conf2006/default.htm

Centre for Security Sector Management (CSSM), formerly GFN-SSR, have re-branded and expanded.  The website address has changed to http://www.ssronline.org

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This website offers an online library of  monitoring and fact-finding tools. The website has key resources for country analysis where you can find the situation in terms of human rights, political and conflict analysis, national law, the economics, the legal instruments which that country has ratified, and human rights-relevant news. There is a facility to search over 3000 human rights websites:
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