ActionSA Calls for IPID Investigation into Botched R22.7 million Hotel Splurge by Crime Intelligence
Dereleen James MP
ActionSA Member of Parliament
ActionSA demands an urgent Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) investigation into Crime Intelligence’s reckless squandering of nearly R23 million of taxpayer funds on a luxury hotel in Pretoria, with no clear operational purpose and potentially corrupt motives.
Revealed in a News24 exposé, SAPS Crime Intelligence, already notorious for corruption, spent a staggering R22.7 million on a luxury boutique hotel, misusing funds meant for covert operations in what is, by all accounts, an egregious abuse of police resources.
Shockingly, this revelation comes at a time when Crime Intelligence is grappling with resource constraints, leaving the division exposed to critical inefficiencies. Consequently, officers are severely under-resourced and unable to perform their duties effectively, while SAPS’s crime detection and prevention efforts are severely hampered by gross mismanagement and blatant abuse of power and resources.
ActionSA believes that it is high time IPID steps up and exercises its mandate to strike a blow against the rank malfeasance that has long plagued SAPS, particularly within its Crime Intelligence division. As outlined in both Section 28(1)(g) and Section 28(2) of the IPID Act, IPID is empowered to investigate corruption within the police and, more specifically in Section 28(2), systemic corruption involving the police.
As South Africa continues to bear witness to escalating violent crime, driven by emboldened organised criminal groups that seemingly face no consequence from SAPS, ActionSA believes it is frankly unacceptable that Crime Intelligence remains led into the abyss, failing to fulfil its critical mandate in protecting South Africans.
ActionSA Calls for IPID Investigation into Botched R22.7 million Hotel Splurge by Crime Intelligence
ActionSA demands an urgent Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) investigation into Crime Intelligence’s reckless squandering of nearly R23 million of taxpayer funds on a luxury hotel in Pretoria, with no clear operational purpose and potentially corrupt motives.
Revealed in a News24 exposé, SAPS Crime Intelligence, already notorious for corruption, spent a staggering R22.7 million on a luxury boutique hotel, misusing funds meant for covert operations in what is, by all accounts, an egregious abuse of police resources.
Shockingly, this revelation comes at a time when Crime Intelligence is grappling with resource constraints, leaving the division exposed to critical inefficiencies. Consequently, officers are severely under-resourced and unable to perform their duties effectively, while SAPS’s crime detection and prevention efforts are severely hampered by gross mismanagement and blatant abuse of power and resources.
ActionSA believes that it is high time IPID steps up and exercises its mandate to strike a blow against the rank malfeasance that has long plagued SAPS, particularly within its Crime Intelligence division. As outlined in both Section 28(1)(g) and Section 28(2) of the IPID Act, IPID is empowered to investigate corruption within the police and, more specifically in Section 28(2), systemic corruption involving the police.
As South Africa continues to bear witness to escalating violent crime, driven by emboldened organised criminal groups that seemingly face no consequence from SAPS, ActionSA believes it is frankly unacceptable that Crime Intelligence remains led into the abyss, failing to fulfil its critical mandate in protecting South Africans.