WATCH: POPCRU Western Cape picket At Pollsmoor Prison

The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) in the Western Cape Province picketed at the Pollsmoor Correctional Centre on Tuesday.

POPCRU said the aim was to raise issues around the lack of adequate security at various correctional centres, which have seen numerous escapes, the shortage of personnel, illegal shift patterns and the lack of an adequate promotion policy.

POPCRU said the pickets are a clear indication of brewing dissatisfaction among members of the criminal justice cluster who have for far too long been subjected to unsavoury working conditions and are increasingly running out of patience.