AfriForum and the DA have condemned the decision by the Western Cape police to record complainants' statements in English only.
In a detailed response, provincial police spokesperson Col Andrè Traut said the use of official languages in SAPS is regulated by policy and directives of the courts.
“All documents submitted in both civil and criminal cases and which will form part of the eventual records of the courts must be in English. The only limited exception permitted by the courts will be the submission of witness statements in a language other than English and only if the witness is not sufficiently conversant in English.”
“All members of the South African Police Service are therefore required to complete case dockets and their statements in English for purposes of presenting it to court,” he said. Traut said SAPS had directed that a statement made in one of the official languages must be taken down in that language, without distorting the meaning of the words.
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