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The South African Police Service (SAPS) or Metro Police have the right to pull over a car on the road and to search it. However, if you feel endangered, you are within your rights to ask the police officer to accompany you to the nearest police station to do the search.
Follow the 'blue light protocol'
This procedure was developed by JPSA and the Road Traffic Management Corporation.
Enforcement officers are expected to carry their duties professionally within the ambits of our laws and the National Road Traffic Act provides for officers to be identifiable and members of the public are entitled to request identification or appointment certificates. Also the Criminal Procedure Act stipulates that an officer who cannot or will not provide such identification is in violation of the Act.
The Constitution, Bill of Rights says that the State must respect, protect, promote and fulfil the right set out tin the Constitution which include the right to life, to be free from all forms of violence from public and private sources, not to be tortured, not be treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman or degrading way. Everyone has the right, peacefully and unarmed to assemble, demonstrate, picket or present petitions.
It is not illegal for offices to be photographed by members of the public while on duty performing their functions or to have video recordings made. ONLY where officers were impeded from carrying out their functions, then they can issue a warning and if the offender still persists, take the necessary action as required under the circumstance.
Our Legal Prestige Plus plan provides you with after-hours emergency bail services.