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Crime Intelligence boss Dumisani Khumalo revealed that forensic investigator Paul O\u2019Sullivan has been under crime intelligence scrutiny for several months.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout follow-ups on that, he has been one of the persons of interest for a few months,\u201d Khumalo said.<\/p>\n
He was responding to questions from EFF MP Leigh-Ann Mathys, when he was giving evidence at the Ad Hoc Committee on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The name of O\u2019Sullivan has cropped up several times at the parliamentary inquiry, with some witnesses accusing him of having influence and conducting investigations at the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), among other things.<\/p>\n
Pressed on when O\u2019Sullivan became a person of interest, Khumalo said it was for a period of about 12 months.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I indicated earlier on today that there are people that become people of interest just because they come out of nowhere and become something. By saying for the past few months, I refer to me having been in charge of Crime Intelligence. He has been a person of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mathys noted that O\u2019Sullivan, in his book, claims that he has Crime Intelligence officers who were giving him information.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat have you done?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
In his response, Khumalo said there were lots of investigations that were going on around the subject.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that is why this morning, one made a comment that talk to the culture in our country of looking at something happening, and doing nothing until it becomes a problem. Those are some of the issues one had to look at coming in the current position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Asked what he was doing with Crime Intelligence officers O\u2019Sullivan claimed to provide him with information, Khumalo said there was a turnaround of the division.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will take some time. It was weakened for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said reforms were needed, as well as critical tools of trade.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe challenges in the environment will need the working together of formal (and) different levels of the arms of state,\u201d said Khumalo.<\/p>\n
He added that there was a need to get the legal framework on track because there was non-existence of policy, including legal framework in the Crime Intelligence.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce that is done, you need proper tools in the form of personnel to implement the reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n
Khumalo said the division had been affected by the arrest of its senior managers and the freezing of posts for almost a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plan is there to be implemented. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Khumalo told the Ad Hoc Committee that there was need for consequence management to be implemented.<\/p>\n
However, he noted that a member in the Western Cape facing serious crime had a one-month salary docked and then returned to work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe culture of disciplining is something we need to deal with from the top. We must have provincial heads and senior officers that are to instill discipline and consequence management will be realised.\u201d<\/p>\n
Khumalo confirmed that there was abuse of the Secret Fund \u201cbig time\u201d.<\/p>\n
He reported that there was an incident where millions were robbed or stolen in the Eastern Cape Crime Intelligence office, resulting in control measures being put in place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI assigned a team to do a surprise inspection and that information leaked. When the team was on the way, the commander reported a fake robbery. That commander was dismissed afterwards and criminally charged.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of reforms and control measures that we put in place that were not in existence,\u201d he said, adding that there were challenges.<\/p>\n
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Crime Intelligence boss Dumisani Khumalo revealed that forensic investigator Paul O\u2019Sullivan has been under crime intelligence scrutiny for several months. \u201cWithout follow-ups on that, he has been one of the persons of interest for a few months,\u201d Khumalo said. He was responding to questions from EFF MP Leigh-Ann Mathys, when he was giving evidence at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[12168,6971,2989,4019,296,18803,4249,689],"class_list":["post-269565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-identifies","tag-interest","tag-investigations","tag-key","tag-khumalo","tag-o039sullivan","tag-ongoing","tag-person"],"yoast_head":"\n