Good news for South African police officers
More than 7000 constables and sergeants will be promoted to the next ranks in the current financial year.
National Police Commissioner General Riah Phiyega said more than 7000 constables and sergeants will be promoted to the next ranks in the current financial year.
Phiyega said a further R150 million will be set aside for the next financial year to promote another 7000 (constables and sergeants) who will be having 11 years of service at the time of promotion.
“After successfully concluding a collective agreement in the safety and security sectoral bargain council, the human resources management division of the SAPS put measures, money and resources in place in order to put all of these processes in place.
“As a start SAPS has made available R150 million for the grade progression of 3761 constables to sergeants and 3614 sergeants to warrant officers, the criteria being that these personnel should have been in their current ranks for 11 years and more,” said Phiyega.
Phiyega said another 87 514 employees who, among them, include the police act and public service act employees will receive pay progressions.
In addition to the seven percent annual cost of living increase (which they received early this financial year), pay progression will be 4 percent for police act employees and 1, 5 percent for public service personnel (bringing annual increase to 11 percent and 8,5 percent respectively).
She said for the realisation of this progression exercise, which kicked off this month, the SAPS has set aside R580 million for this financial year.
“We believe that these interventions will address most of promotion-related issues, some of which have taken longer than necessary,” she said.
