Corruption in police ranks a huge problem: analyst

JOHANNESBURG - Corruption within the country's law enforcement agencies makes fighting crime in South Africa even harder according to KZN violence monitor, Prof Mary De Haas.

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She says the country's crime intelligence is riddled with corruption, and law enforcement agencies have been infiltrated by criminal elements.

She said, "there is a huge problem with corruption with the police and we need to understand that we've crisis in policing in generally, no one is worse than crime intelligence."

"Crime intelligence is riddle with corruption and nothing has changed since the Zondo Commission findings, it got worse if anything. I got doses of data about this and it's so bad that there is a lot of collusion between police and taxis."

"In January, family was gunned down on the road and he was investigating taxi violence and there is a belief that he was killed by the police."

"There's a lack of corporate crime intelligence or crime intelligence dealing with criminality and we've drug dealers working with crime intelligence in KZN."