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ActionSA demands urgent investigation into Crime Intelligence's R22.7-million luxury hotel purchase

13th January 2025

By: Thabi Shomolekae

Creamer Media Senior Writer

     

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ActionSA on Monday demanded an urgent Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) investigation into Crime Intelligence's reported use of about R23-million of taxpayer funds on purchasing a luxury hotel in Pretoria.

ActionSA MP Dereleen James noted a News24 exposé, in which South African Police Service (Saps) Crime Intelligence, spent a staggering R22.7-million on a luxury boutique hotel, “misusing funds meant for covert operations in what is, by all accounts, an egregious abuse of police resources”.

She said, shockingly, the revelation came at a time when Crime Intelligence was grappling with resource constraints, leaving the division exposed to critical inefficiencies.

“…consequently, officers are severely under-resourced and unable to perform their duties effectively, while Saps’s crime detection and prevention efforts are severely hampered by gross mismanagement and blatant abuse of power and resources,” she stated.

Edited by Sashnee Moodley
Polity and Multimedia Managing Editor

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