Publication

This report examines the relationship between the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the South African Police Service (SAPS), to assess whether the TRC had an impact on the institutional transformation of the national police agency. It discusses their relationship in the context of institutional police reform after South Africa's first democratic government took power in 1994. The author discusses how the South African TRC model combined truth-telling about police abuses committed during the Apartheid era with amnesty for those who came forward and confessed.