Police watchdog, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) has obtained help from the National Treasury to complete an investigation into the allegations of the premature closing of cases.
On October 7, an expose by Viewfinder, a new accountability journalism project, detailed how IPID, since at least 2012, allegedly manipulated statistics by closing or completing cases before investigations were completed.
Internal documents, seen by News24, revealed its investigators complained they were forced to complete or close cases without concluding proper investigations.
In response, IPID said a former ethics officer had "allegedly received" a whistleblower report about the special closure of investigations at the Gauteng provincial office.
"It was alleged that the cases were closed without due process being followed in respect of conducting the required investigations.
"He forwarded a report to the office of the then-executive director requesting that an investigation be launched into the fraudulent closure of cases at the Gauteng provincial office during the period April 2016 to July 2016 as 'special closures'," read the statement from IPID acting spokesperson Sontaga Seisa.