Experts, SAPS insiders question reduction of cop training from 24 to 8 months

Security experts, police unions and some inside the SA Police Service are questioning a decision to drastically cut the police training period from 24 months to eight.The move, which police sources have said acting national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Kgomotso Phahlane will announce at a media briefing today, has surprised many in the security industry, who say police need more training, not less.