buy this article By Kotie Geldenhuys Photos/images courtesy of ChatGTP and Pixabay Illicit logging, wildlife trafficking and illegal mining activities result in huge gains for the criminals who launder the proceeds of their illicit activities through elaborate financial schemes. With the escalation of such environmental crimes, it has become equally important to trace the money
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– Small towns under siege from ghost criminals who vanish by day, terrorise by night buy this article By Odwa RalaneImages generated by Copilot This article explores the “amaphara-phara” phenomenon: young men driven by their drug addiction who abandon their homes for street life and crime, transforming small Eastern Cape towns into zones of fear.
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buy this article By Annalise KempenPhoto courtesy of Roman Odintsov, Pexels We live in a tech-driven world with an estimated 70% of the global population relying on mobile services for communication, commerce and access to digital platforms (GSMA Intelligence, 2026). Children are part of our tech-driven world, and in 2019 the first announcements about a
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buy this article By Brig Dirk Lambrechts This is “an ex tempore judgment*” by the High Court in Durban. It is an appeal against the refusal by the magistrates’ court, Verulam in KZN, to admit Mr Shirwin Nowtham (hereinafter referred to as the accused) to bail based on the alleged existence of “new facts”. The
buy this article – Security tool or privacy threat? By Kotie Geldenhuys Photos/images courtesy of Magnific The use of facial recognition technology is becoming common in today’s world. Apart from the ability to unlock cellphones, other uses include expediting security screening at airports and improving customers’ experience in stores through better service. The technology has
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buy this article By Kotie GeldenhuysPhotos/images courtesy of Magnific and SAPS Policing is an increasingly complex task, with manpower and resource shortages and increasing levels of violent crime adding strain on law enforcement agencies. In response, drones are emerging as a valuable policing tool, helping law enforcement officers manage some routine but demanding situations. Unmanned
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buy this article By Kotie Geldenhuys Photo courtesy of Pixabay A law enforcement officer’s body-worn camera is arguably one of the most significant pieces of equipment in contemporary policing. These cameras record interactions between law enforcers and community members during everyday events involving tension, conflict and collaboration. The device is regarded as a sign of
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buy this article Compiled by Kotie Geldenhuys Photos/images courtesy of Creen AI and Pixabay Minority Report, the 2002 sci-fi movie set in the year 2054, features an elite police squad called “Precrime,” which arrests people charged with killing other people before the killings occur, all thanks to visions from three “precogs” gifted with the power
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buy this article By Brig Dirk Lambrechts IntroductionThis National Prosecuting Authority Amendment Act 10 of 2024 (hereinafter referred to as the Amendment Act 10 of 2024), appears in English and Afrikaans in Government Gazette No 50713 dated 27 May 2024. Its main object is to amend the National Prosecuting Authority Act 32 of 1998 (hereinafter
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Buy this article QuestionOne of Servamus’s readers, who is a private investigator, reminds us that “a lot of the times a SAPS fingerprint expert takes a long while to report at a crime scene”. Accordingly, our reader wants to know whether an SAPS fingerprint expert is the only authorised person who may dust for, and
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