IPID members eventually gain access to Phahlane’s housing complex

19 January 2017 - 18:58 By Sipho Mabena
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Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) investigators driving in a convoy of five vehicles appeared to have trouble gaining access to the upmarket Sable Hills Waterfront Estate home of acting national police commissioner‚ Lt-General Khomotso Phahlane‚ north east of Pretoria on Thursday afternoon.

Though they were driving in clearly branded official vehicles and in marked reflector cross belts‚ the security guards at the entrance would not allow them in to conduct a raid of the home of the country’s top cop after obtaining a search warrant.

  • Police attempt to thwart IPID search of acting police commissioner’s homePolice in marked and unmarked cars have descended on the housing estate where the home of acting national police commissioner‚ Lieutenant-General Kgomotso Phahlane‚ is being raided by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate. 

After almost an hour‚ the convoy was eventually allowed in raid the R8-million home and spent about an hour inside before driving out.

Children returning from school and residents arrived to a hive of activity in the relatively quiet neighbourhood‚ with scores of journalists milling about the driveway of the estate on the banks of the Roodeplaat Dam.

A police van from the nearby Kameeldrift remained parked across the road‚ with officers inside the van watching activities at the main entrance.

Phahlane's multi-million rand home was raided just hours after IPID investigators obtained a court-ordered search warrant after they took a warning statement from him early this morning.

The raid was carried out in connection with allegations of corruption and defeating the ends of justice‚ which Phahlane is being investigated for.

The allegations stem from Phahlane allegedly receiving kickbacks while he headed the police's forensic science laboratory.

Reports are that investigators were searching Phahlane's home for an R80‚000 sound system which had allegedly been installed in his home by a service provider who apparently received a contract with the police forensic science laboratory.

-TMG Digital/The Times

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