Risk and Security Division of the NPA

The death threat was escalated to the Risk and Security Division of the NPA who followed up, but the threatening telephone could not be traced as it used an unregistered SIM card, a so-called ‘burner phone’.

“The matter was escalated to the Risk and Security Division of the NPA. They did follow up on that message. It was one of those phones that did not have a registered SIM card, so it sent a message and you could not then go ahead and trace the user of the telephone.”