Referred to as: Asset Protection Unit · AP S · AP Unit · APS
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Veli Nwandule confirmed receipt of only 22 invoices for August 2024 after a long delay despite patient efforts and highlighted procedural expectations regarding payment release.
“I hereby acknowledge receipt to your original invoices after a long and unnecessarily delay. Thanks to the patient messenger I sent to your offices. I confirm that I only received 22 invoices for the month of August 2024.”
Asset Protection Unit was returned to Metro Police which has its own finance section handling contracts and service providers like Watchman Services, distinct from other departments.
“AP S has been returned back to Metro Police and it is common knowledge that Metro Police, not like other departments, have their own finance section because we do deal with contracts and service providers like the Watchman Services and others.”
The Asset Protection Unit was moved from the City Manager's Office to the Metro Police on 1 July 2024 and became a division within the Metro Police called Asset Protection and Security Services.
“this specific division that I am in charge of was created and started in the structure 1 July 2024. The Asset Protection Unit was then moved from the City Manager's Office to the Metro Police in the new division. It was originally a unit and it is now a division, Asset Protection and Security Services”
Deputy Commissioner Bolhuis was the caretaker of the Asset Protection Unit between July 2024 and February 2025, prior to the appointment of the current occupant in March 2025.
“Deputy Commissioner Bolhuis was assigned as caretaker for this division ... I was only appointed on 1 March 2025.”