JOHANNESBURG – Twelve SAPS members were killed in the line of duty between April 2025 and March 2026.
Those fallen heroes were remembered in Pretoria on Sunday.
Popcru’s Mosadiwamaje Mokokong said an attack on a police officer is an attack on the state.
“This is a crisis. Hence, as a union coming from our recent Central Executive Committee, we again reaffirmed our long-standing resolution that says the government must declare a deliberate killing of a police officer as treason.
“We cannot afford to have the criminals that goes out and kill law enforcement officers because in our view, when you attack and kill a police officer you are not just killing an individual employee, but this according to us, is an attack on the authority and the capacity of a democratic state so hence we have made that call to say can we declare this is a treason those that are killing the police officers.”