POLICE watchdog, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, has demanded that the acting police commissioner stay away from any investigation involving its officers.
In a letter of demand sent to Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane, Ipid alleges he used his position to illegally obtain documents related to their investigation against him. The letter demands that Phahlane should also ensure no police officers facing an Ipid investigation
become involved in any counter-
investigation into Ipid officials.
The letter was sent by law firm Adams & Adams to the provincial commissioners for Gauteng and North West on 12 May. The law firm said it represents Ipid and two of its officers, Mandlakayise Mahlangu and Temane Binang.
The two are the lead investigators in corruption and defeating the ends of justice cases against Phahlane.
They have been charged and summoned to appear in court at the end of the month following a criminal case Phahlane opened earlier this year. He alleged in the case that forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan and his assistant pretended to be
Ipid officers when they visited the Sable Hills Estate, where Phahlane lives, as part of Mahlangu and Binang’s investigation. – NEWS24
