Police waste R17 million on political witch hunts
31 October 2016
The Department of Police has spent more than R17 million on political witch hunts targeting individuals who have fallen out of favour with Jacob Zuma or his acolytes. This speaks directly to the politicisation of our law enforcement agencies and the resultant perversion of our criminal justice system.
This shamefully wasteful spending was revealed in a reply to a DA parliamentary question, which shows that the following amounts were spent on civil litigation and internal disciplinary proceedings against the following individuals:
- R3.3 million on Johan Booysen, suspended KwaZulu-Natal Hawks commander;
- R6.7 million on Robert McBride, director of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID);