Referred to as: Port Shepstone DPCI · Port Shepstone Organized Crime SOCI · Port Shepstone SAPS
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Warrant Officer Mpangase did not put exhibits back into the SAP13 register after booking them out, instead they were transported to and stored at Port Shepstone DPCI vault.
“we had already recorded them in SAP13 in Isipingo. And then at that time they were being transported to Port Shepstone”
After booking out exhibits from SAP13 register, it is required by national instruction to account for them properly and enter them into the register again if returned.
“there is a national instruction that says they have to be accounted for”
The storage room at Port Shepstone DPCI where the drugs were kept has no proper records in SAPS system; drugs are not recorded anywhere and the diary entries of exhibit handling are misleading, constituting major issues.
“It is a storeroom which has drugs in it which are not recorded anywhere on the SAPS system. There is no record of these drugs ... We have no entry of what you did on the 24th. We know you went into this vault, you handled these drugs on the 24th. There is no entry of that in this diary. ... Another false record in this diary. So it is not minor things, it is major things that mislead the reader of the diary.”
The Port Shepstone Organized Crime Unit known as Hawks was incorporated into the Port Shepstone DPCI where the speaker was the Unit Commander until 2013.
“Directorate for Priority Crime, DPCI, known as Hawks, the Port Shepstone Organized Crime Unit, where I was the Unit Commander, was incorporated into the Port Shepstone DPCI. I remained the Unit Commander at the Port Shepstone DPCI with the rank of a Lieutenant Colonel until 2013”
General Senona instructed preparation of a strong room safe at Port Shepstone for storing exhibits and arranged escort from Isipingo to Port Shepstone DPCI, SOCI.
“I called General Senona and informed him of the dilemma and suggested a strong room at Port Shepstone premises. He agreed and instructed me to instruct the Acting Unit Commander at Port Shepstone, Lieutenant Colonel Prinsloo, to prepare the safe for the exhibit... General Senona also instructed me to arrange for the provincial tracking team to escort the investigators from Isipingo to Port Shepstone DPCI, SOCI.”
Keys for Port Shepstone DPCI were held at Port Shepstone and not by the exhibits clerk, contrary to protocol.
“No, the keys for Port Shepstone DPCI would be held at Port Shepstone ... So this is another area of non compliance with how things should have been done, that the keys did not remain with the exhibits clerk at Port Shepstone DPCI.”
General Senona took the keys and effectively became the exhibits clerk, replacing the usual exhibits clerk at Port Shepstone DPCI.
“And so by taking the keys, General Senona effectively became the exhibits clerk, too, took the place of the exhibits clerk? Yes.”
Warrant Officer Mpangase collected keys from the safe and took samples from exhibits at Port Shepstone DPCI, and these were entered and booked out in the SAPS records.
“The safe was opened by Warrant Officer Mpangase in their presence and he took the sample from the exhibits and we went to Port Shepstone SAPS with Warrant Officer Mkhomo from Port Shepstone Organized Crime SOCI and the exhibit were entered in the Port Shepstone SAPS 138H9/2021 by Warrant Officer Mpangase and he also booked them out.”