Mkhwanazi explains efforts to raise SAPS internal issues with Parly – SABC News
KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says he asked to be invited to Parliament’s Police portfolio committee in March to raise internal issues in the SA Police Service, which he was concerned about.
He says his request came after the now-placed on special leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu had issued a directive on the 31st of December 2024, that the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) should be disbanded.
Mkhwanazi is appearing before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, established to probe allegations of national security.
He says that after the Police Portfolio Committee meeting did not result in anything meaningful, he requested Mchunu to meet via WhatsApp.
In the message, Mkhwanazi cautioned Mchunu that disbanding the PKTT would have far-reaching consequences.
“This was my effort to try and reach out as I observed until April, it looks like everyone is failing to secure a meeting, let me try on my own.”
“Sawubona Minister, [hello Minister], please forgive [me] for writing directly [to you] but [I] feel [compelled to] … write to you to request [a] meeting, on internal issues in organisation that can affect my family and destabilise crime-fighting efforts.”
Below are Tuesday’s proceedings:
Success rate
MKhwanazi says the PKTT had a good success rate, with 436 suspects arrested and charged, 135 police officers charged, and 128 accused found guilty.
General Mkhwanazi says he hopes to see arrests soon following what he described as an unauthorised transfer of 121 dockets that the Political Killings Task Team was probing.
He says he has opened a case of defeating the ends of justice against suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya.