Anti-Gang Unit head wants three top cops removed after botched op leaves 6 officers injured
19 June 2019
The head of the Western Cape's Anti-Gang Unit - which came under fire during a tracing operation, resulting in six officers being shot - has requested that three top-ranking members placed in his force by the provincial police commissioner be immediately removed.
Major General Andre Lincoln is understood to have written the letter a day after his officers were wounded in the early morning shootout in Samora Machel, about 20km outside Cape Town.
In a scathing letter, the top cop wrote to Western Cape police commissioner Lieutenant General Khombinkosi Jula, requesting the removal of a brigadier and two colonels who had been placed in his unit by Jula himself.
Lincoln charged that one of the named colonels had planned and instructed the officers to take part in the operation, without an approved operation plan or specialised forces.