FROM LEFT: Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo (Head of Crime Intelligence), Dr Ntandazo Sifolo (Acting Co-ordinator for Intelligence), Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Lt-Gen Thalita Mxakato (Chief of Defence Intelligence), and Ambassador Tony ‘Gab’ Msimanga (Acting DG of the State Security Agency) at the launch of the National Centre for Intelligence Co-ordination (NCIC), in Pretoria, on April 14.
Dr. Reneva Fourie
One year has passed since KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi delivered explosive allegations about links between organised crime and elements of South Africa's criminal justice system.
His testimony reinforced a pattern that has surfaced repeatedly through commissions of inquiry, expert panels and judicial investigations over many years. At the centre of that pattern stands Crime Intelligence, a division that remains essential to combating organised crime, but which has repeatedly been identified as vulnerable to corruption, manipulation and criminal infiltration.
Crime Intelligence performs legitimate and valuable anti-crime functions, and several of its members are hardworking and honest. The division occupies a uniquely sensitive position within the South African Police Service.
