RUA

Lt-Col Sebola explained that police drug enforcement does not investigate criminal matters based on their knowledge but relies on information from other state agencies, and that such operations become police operations once information is received.

“Normally , Commissioners , it comes from other state agencies . It goes to the police . Then it become a police operation . It is as good as , like , you get it from anonymous callers and all those things . Then you , whoever , if the calls get to say it enters into this agency , like , let us say it goes to my head office , my own head of office . I am based in Gauteng . Theirs is to say who is based on that area . Then they dispatch the information to whoever should be in that area . Then once I have done everything , I have to submit an information note to the people that gave me that information . If I open enquiry , I will quickly open up enquiry because every action must be based on documents to say I got this information from head office . They said they got it from so and so . Is it not that they still need to respond ? Then I write my own information note about operation that this is what happened , this is what we found , this was the end product of RUA informations so that they can communicate with whoever submitted the information .”