Editorial: Age of the Assassin: A man died for his country today – RIP Charl Kinnear

In December 2019 SAPS withdrew police protection from the home of Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear, a top-detective with the Anti-Gang unit who was investigating high-profile gang members in Cape Town and beyond.

By SAPS’ own account Kinnear, a section commander, was “involved in investigations into several high profile cases resulting in multiple arrests.”wrote of how Kinnear’s wife Nicolette lived in terror when police who were assigned to protect their home were removed in December 2019. A month earlier two men had been arrested outside Kinnear’s home.“This places the life of the police officer and his family in danger.

Those corrupt members of SAPS who have colluded with underworld figures now have a direct burden to carry– they helped kill Charl Kinnear.Like an officer in the DPCI, also in the Western Cape, who was recently plugged with four bullets from a stolen police gun supplied to a criminal by a corrupt cop and which in turn was used to seriously wound a dedicated, good cop.

“The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Khehla John Sitole has expressed outrage at the killing of one the SAPS top investigators, Colonel Charl Kinnear.

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