Police incompetence blamed for repeat offences

Repeat offence is becoming a trend. The media is awash with stories of alleged robbers or killers and rapists who when on bail are dragged back to court for committing similar crimes and then granted bail.  It has emerged that the problem is not with the courts but with slow and incompetent investigators.

Experts argued that police investigators are often ‘trigger happy’ to arrest and charge would-be-offenders without benefit of thorough and complete investigations. Even if they have a strong case against the accused, bail is granted because the investigators fail to convince the courts that the accused is not a candidate for bail.