District

Maj-Gen Senona alleges retired Lt Col Prinsloo failed to disclose to the Commission that he informed the District Commissioner about the drug storage and requested Visible Policing patrols, incorrectly claiming Senona instructed no one to be informed and never requesting assistance.

“I have several concerns regarding my evidence tendered by Colonel Prinsloo. This includes his failure to disclose to the Commission that he informed the District Commissioner in that district about the storage of the drugs and that he requested Visible Policing patrols in the area. He alleges that I instructed that no one be informed about the storage, but he never requested additional assistance from my office.”

Brigadier Naicker did not inform the Commission about his visit with the Warrant Officers and the drugs stored, raising questions why he never reported this to the Commission despite discussing it with the District Commissioner.

“He does not say the Brigadier when he was there, he came with two Warrant Officers. No now the question is, I am saying there is a probability that also these two Warrant Officers might know, might have knowledge of it because he was travelling with them. Now, why never informed the Commission? I do not know”

The District Commissioner was requested to inform members to patrol after an incident over the weekend to inspect the office, but the first person on Monday failed to go down and check the office despite abnormal conditions, so someone else had to inspect it on Sunday.

“he requested the District Commissioner to inform his members to patrol ... he went there on Sunday. He failed to go down and double check ... Monday, he is the first person in the office ... he saw something that is not normal ... he does not go down and check ... so I did that”

On the day the theft was discovered, the DPCI investigators were not on the scene, only Brigadier Sibiya and the District Commissioner were present from the General Detective side.

“They were not on the scene... The District Commissioner was there”

The District Commissioner has the prerogative to deny the transfer of a docket to any unit, provided the denial is justified.

“As the District Commissioner, you got the prerogative to deny the docket being transferred to any unit, provided you can justify your denial”

Lieutenant-General Shibiri responded that members of the district informed him that he was the one blocking the bail for a suspect, and that some of those members came from his homeland as well as others from Limpopo.

“I am saying some members of the district informed me that there was a talk about me that I am the one who is blocking the bail and that time already he thanked the people for arranging bail as he requested and so forth. So, and I indicated that those members did not even want to tell me who is the person and the district in Gauteng they are six, not, if I am not mistaken and there are a lot of people coming from my homeland and others not far from where I am staying, working there and there is no where where me I am saying here in the transcript that is a district officer. I am saying somebody working from, people working from the district and then having interest in cases which are not even investigated by them.”