308 cases finalised in a day: whistle-blower accuses Ipid of covering up police brutality

It quoted an Ipid investigator, interviewed on condition of anonymity, who was also the case worker on some of the files completed that day. “The main aim of Ipid is to move as many cases from ‘active’ to ‘decision ready’ as quickly as possible. By itself, the ‘decision-ready’ status is meaningless. It has no actual impact on the offender. Without an arrest, without a prosecution, without a conviction, there is no accountability.

Sometimes the National Prosecuting Authority sent poorly investigated dockets back to this particular Ipid office, along with queries, the investigator said. Some of these dockets were then “thrown on to a pile” and ignored, because, as far as Ipid’s case management system was concerned, the cases were complete: “a job well done".

“Ipid is failing poor people and misleading the public. There is no justice for the victims,” the investigator said. Viewfinder also interviewed the head of investigation at Ipid, Matthews Sesoko, who said allegations of statistical manipulation were confined to the period when he and former Ipid director Robert McBride were suspended.

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