NCJ Number
182378
Journal
African Security Review Volume: 8 Issue: 3 Dated: 1999 Pages: 3-66
Date Published
1999
Length
64 pages
Annotation
Six articles consider various issues pertinent to security and public safety in South Africa and other African countries; topics include the management of intelligence, police corruption, gender equality, equipment considerations, and police reform.
Abstract
The first article examines the management of intelligence in an age of knowledge and offers recommendations for government actions in the field of intelligence and information management. With reference to South Africa, the article concludes that it does not have an efficient integrated approach to information management, which contributes to institutional inefficiency and lost opportunities. Without an integrated information management strategy, a state and its government risk never reaching their potential, while letting events overtake them as they become reactive entities with limited influence on and within the contemporary dynamic environment. The second article examines the causes of corruption in policing, with attention to South Africa, and suggests ways police agencies can prevent and reduce it. This is followed by an article that analyzes South Africa's Defense Department's policy regarding gender equality, so as to determine the extent to which the government's declarations on this subject are honored within the organization. Other articles address police reform in South Africa, equipment considerations for military operations in a third world environment, and the prospects for democracy in Niger.