Allegations of police-employed hitmen not farfetched - former WC top cop

Commenting on recent developments at the Madlanga Commission, a former Western Cape top cop said the allegations of possible police-employed hitmen is not farfetched.

Crime Intelligence boss Dumisani Khumalo told the commission that crime networks involved in political killings had begun recruiting serving South African Police Service (SAPS) members as hitmen.

Former Western Cape detective Jeremy Veary said that Khumalo’s allegation makes sense.

“I think, once you have been compromised to the extent that you're already employing surveillance on behalf of an organised criminal, then you are so deeply in their pocket that you will not be able to pull out once an instruction is given that you must pull a hit.”

Veary referenced the Nafiz Modack trial, where a policeman had been tracking the movements of the now-deceased detective Charl Kinnear.

“We've had similar scenarios in the Western Cape, for example, in the Modack matter, where a captain in the police attached to a rogue unit in Crime Intelligence, at the behest of Modak, was involved in surveilling Kinnear, actually live surveillance of Kinnear, prior to his killing.”

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