Before joining TUT, he was a functional member within the South African Police Service (SAPS) within the Detective Service for ten years and additional three years in a support environment as a Unit Commander within the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure Service Management at Component: Information and Systems Management (currently known as Division: Technology and Technical Management).
He has successfully supervised and co-supervised five Doctoral students and Master’s students. He has supervised postgraduate research students at the TUT since 2010. He has extensive teaching experience in Criminal Investigation at undergraduate level.
He is African Research Chair for the Campus and School Public Safety in the Department of Safety and Security Management, and also a member of the Council of the Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa (CRIMSA).
Prof Jacob Tseko Mofokeng holds a Doctor Technologiae (D-Tech): Policing, a Baccalaureus Technologiae (BTech): Business Information System from Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), a National Diploma and a National Higher Diploma: Policing from Technikon SA. Jacob Mofokeng, Tshwane University of Technology Prof Adewale Olutola equally serves as external examiner to several universities in areas of Law, Police Science, Criminology and Criminal justice. Aside from lecturing undergraduate students in law and policing, he supervises postgraduate students in policing, and many have graduated under his supervision at the Department of Safety and Security Management of Tshwane University of Technology. He is an Acting HoD in the Department of Safety and Security Management, Tshwane University of Technology. He reviews several accredited and international scholarly journals, such as but not limited to, International Criminal Justice Review Journal, Cogent Social Sciences, The Journal of Nation-building & Policy studies (JoNPS), Acta Criminologica, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, Journal of African Foreign Affairs (JoAFA), Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology (JSSA). He is an Editorial Board member of Acta Criminological (An accredited journal). He has just been re-elected to serve another term as CRIMSA Council Member for 2020-2022. Prof Olutola has published several articles in accredited journals and chapters in books to his credit. He has presented peer-reviewed research papers at various national and international conferences. His research interests cut across Legal systems, Crime Prevention, and the Comparative Criminal Justice Systems. Prof Adewale Olutola is an Advocate of Law and Professor of Policing. This paper concludes that social media as a tool can be utilised in terms of data gathering, prediction and spotting broader patterns, for combating organised crime by the SAPS. Finally, officer insights were drawn upon to make recommendations for future policing policy and research. Although the positive impact of social media was highlighted in these experiences, persistent problems and challenges also featured in the data. The findings also indicate that social media is used to bring positive attention to law enforcement agencies and aid in criminal investigations. The findings indicate that criminals in the Limpopo Province use social media to commit crimes in the country, other countries in Africa, and elsewhere. The findings were collected through semi-structured interviews with 22 participants comprising the South African Police Service (SAPS) officials in the Giyani Cluster policing area. A qualitative research approach was adopted to explore the extent to which and the ways in which South African police use social media in the study area. Social media is considered a double-edged sword, with both positive and negative effects. Communication Intelligence Investigation Organised crime Social media Abstract
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