Metro Police Inspector Phiri

The forensic audit report concerns Metro Police Inspector issuing instructions to deploy guards beyond his mandate, involving 22 companies, but the investigation faced challenges due to lack of evidence and inability to interview key individuals.

“The subject matter was the Metro Police Inspector issuing written instruction to deploy ad hoc guards beyond his mandate . And the letter then in the introduction portion it specifically stated : “ On 27 June this Directorate received allegations to investigate against Inspector Phiri for issuing written instructions to Gubis 85 Security Solution to deploy ad hoc guards which is way beyond his mandate . ” ... the investigation is unable to test the allegation against 22 companies to establish whether Inspector Phiri issued the instruction to all these service providers to deploy ad hoc guards . ... unable to interview Director Malatji ... director Malatji has then already been suspended ... He refused and he could not get hold of him at all to actually do this and he could also not confirm with SAPS if there were any cases ... He was also unable to source the standard operating procedure ... he was unable to source full financial records ...”