After 26 years of experience, Colonel Tallman Sawuti has decided to return home to the Eastern Cape where he has recently been appointed as the Head of Visible Policing of the Grahamstown branch.
Sawuti was born in Alice and was a teacher for six years before he became a policeman at Alice Police Station, where he was a constable for two years.
After 26 years of experience, Colonel Tallman Sawuti has decided to return home to the Eastern Cape where he has recently been appointed as the Head of Visible Policing of the Grahamstown branch.
Sawuti was born in Alice and was a teacher for six years before he became a policeman at Alice Police Station, where he was a constable for two years.
Since then, he had dedicated himself to crime prevention around the Eastern Cape and Cape Town. Through his dedication, Sawuti had been promoted to a number of SAPF ranks including Station Commissioner in Alice, Zwelitsha and at Duncan Village Police Station, where he intervened and resolved a lot of taxi fights at the time.
He also was appointed as a captain, lieutenant, a warren officer and trained as a Pilot Project Manager in Mdantsane Police Station before he moved to the Western Cape where he became a Superintendent at Khayelitsha Police Station in 2005.
A year later, he was promoted as a Station Commissioner at Lingelethu Police Station before the provincial commissioner placed him in training as a provincial Field Training Manager.
Throughout his career Sawuti has built a culture for solving the predicaments of community crimes by working closely with residents where police reserves are recruited from communities to back up the SAPF with crime leads.
He declares: “As we know that all crimes in the community are community driven, we need to work with the people because myself too at the end of the day I will have to go back to the community as a resident.”
