Portfolio Committee on Police Chairperson Ian Cameron says the Hawks have become extremely ineffective and that at times he doubts they should even continue to exist.
South Africa's elite crime fighting unit, the Hawks, lacks capacity to combat serious crime.
That is according to Portfolio Committee on Police Chairperson Ian Cameron, who claims the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), known as the Hawks, has become increasingly ineffective and lacks the capacity required to combat serious crime.
Cameron said the unit's capacity to fight crime is below its call of duty.
He believes that the elite unit was operating at about 45% capacity and had been “hollowed out completely” over the years.
