IPID responds to claims of premature closure of cases, says report expected 'within weeks'
9 October 2019
Within the next few weeks, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is expecting a report on the premature closure of cases to manipulate performance statistics.
This comes after an exposé by Viewfinder, a new accountability journalism project, detailed how since at least 2012, the police watchdog manipulated statistics.
Viewfinder's investigation found that on the days before the end of the financial year, many more cases would be closed than on other days.
Internal documents, seen by News24, reveal that IPID investigators complained that they were forced to complete or close cases without concluding a proper investigation.