IPID FILES ON POLICE: No one had Kinnear’s back: Ipid calls for criminal charges against superiors and members of WC rogue unit

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While Charl Kinnear, decorated lieutenant-colonel in the Anti-Gang Unit was brazenly assassinated after his protection was removed in 2019, his boss, former national police commissioner Khehla Sitole, has walked away from accounting for his role in the ...

This was revealed in the final report by the Independent Police Investigation Directorate into circumstances leading to the murder of Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear outside his home in Bishop Lavis in September 2020. The report has now been sent to Police Minister Bheki Cele.

The report also made the finding that retired Anti-Gang Unit head André Lincoln was “entirely responsible for the withdrawal of the late ColonelIt was the investigative team’s view that Lincoln’s conduct “was as much to blame for the sequelae of events”, as was that of a major general and a warrant officer, both of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation .

The Ipid investigators found there was “sufficient evidence” that a rogue unit existed in Western Cape Crime Intelligence, reporting to Brigadier Hansia Hansraj. This unit had investigated Kinnear, Jacobs and Vearey. The finding of the Ipid task team was that if “these rogue opportunities were allowed to continue, it has potential to subvert the entire Western Cape Police Service”.

 

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How can there possibly be no consequence for such gross abuse and misconduct? If so, we as a nation face a very bleak and destructive future, anarchy awaits just such an environment.

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