Richards Bay

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”

After seizure of 14 bags of dagga by Maj-Gen Senona's office at Richards Bay, nine bags went missing after being booked into SAP 13 police station and samples were needed for forensic testing.

“My office at Richards Bay went and seized 14 bags, big bags of Dagga... after a week, when they went there to take samples to send to forensic, nine of the bags were missing. A docket was opened.”

In KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), there are five Serious Organized Crime Investigation (SOCI) units located at Durban, Port Shepstone, Pietermaritzburg, Richards Bay, and Newcastle.

“In KZN there are five SOCI units. There is one in Durban, Port Shepstone, Pietermaritzburg, Richards Bay, and Newcastle.”