The DA says it is still studying the "ramifications" of Robert McBride's appointment as head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate and will not challenge it in court until its review is complete.
McBride started work at the directorate yesterday.
DA federal chairman James Selfe said the party would consult its lawyers today about whether it could use methods similar to those with which it succeeded in challenged the appointment of National Director of Public Prosecutions Menzi Simelane.
The DA contended in the Constitutional Court that Simelane's appointment by President Jacob Zuma had not been properly considered.
Last week the party said it would apply in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act for documentation on McBride's appointment and the removal from the job specification of the requirement that the head of the directorate have a law qualification.
The DA is demanding to see the job advert, the job description and all the application documents submitted by McBride.
The party's spokesman on policing, Diane Kohler Barnard, said legal action would depend on the success of the application.
McBride was fired from his previous job as head of Ekhuruleni's metro police after he was convicted of drunken driving and sentenced to two years behind bars.
Last year he successfully appealed against his sentence.
In June 1986, McBride was part of an Mkhonto weSizwe group that bombed the Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban. Three people were killed and 69 injured He was sentenced to death.
He was released in 1992 with a full amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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