Referred to as: Serious Organised Crime Investigations · SOCI
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The General directed Brigadier Nyuswa that the member must return to Serious Organised Crime Investigations (SOCI) rather than to SANEB, indicating that his return was compliant with instructions.
“My decision was that he must go back to SOCI, Serious Organised Crime Investigations... I said he must go back to SOCI... And my directive as far as I am concerned, or as far as I can recall, I said he must go back to SOCI.”
SOCI as an entity comprises three subsections: National Priority Violence Crime (NPVC), South African Narcotic Enforcement Bureau (SANEB), and EPR.
“SOCI is Serious Organised Crime, and Serious Organised Crime is divided into three subsections. The NPVC, National Priority Violence Crime, SANEB, South African Narcotic Enforcement Bureau, and the EPR.”
If directives were from head office (General Libiya), decisions to remove and restore Warrant Officer Sander would also come from head office; it was not Maj General Senona's own decision.
“If you were acting on the instruction from head office, which is General Libiya, surely the decision to restore or to return Warrant Officer Sander to SOCI ... could also not be your decision ... The return ... also has to be based on an instruction from head office ...”
Maj-Gen Senona visited his offices and limited other specified offices and met his people but was not taken around police stations nor forced to do so by his job.
“I visited my offices. I visited Newcastle. I am having an office of SOCI in Newcastle... I visited my offices in Richards Bay... I visited a SOCI office in Pietermaritzburg... I visited my offices at Durban Organised Crime where SOCI is SOCI at 136... I visited the Serious Corruption in a Commercial City Building... But police stations, no. It is the Provincial Commissioner who is in charge of the police station, not me... I have listed my offices that I visited that I have authority over”
In August 2020, Major General Senona was appointed Provincial Head of DPCI KZN, at the same time as the speaker's permanent appointment as Provincial Commander of SOCI.
“Major General Senona was appointed the Provincial Head of DPCI KZN in August 2020, the same month as my permanent appointment as Provincial Commander, SOCI”
Lieutenant Colonel Sibiya began his police career in 2005, progressively promoted through ranks up to Lieutenant Colonel by December 1, 2024.
“In 2005, I began my career with the police as a Student Constable. I was appointed as a Constable in 2007... Most recently, December 1, 2024, I was promoted to a Lieutenant Colonel at DPCI, SOCI.”