Glenister at the coalface: are the police part of an effective independent security service?

Glenister v President of the Republic of South Africa & Others found that changes to national legislation which replaced the Directorate of Special Operations, known as the Scorpions (DSO), with the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, known as the Hawks (DPCI), were unconstitutional and were a violation of the rule of law. This article utilises the voices of South African citizens to investigate the struggle to substantively realise the rule of law as a pervasive norm and justiciable claim through an effective and independent security service in a material and social world of profound fragmentation, normative contestation, deprivation and institutional disarray.