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EXCLUSIVE | Crime Intelligence’s spy wire-taps ‘go slow’ on SA’s most dangerous criminals
One minute agents knew what was going on, the next ‘they were in the dark’ after the firing of former national police commissioner Khehla Sitole
09 August 2022 - 19:58
Agents in the SAPS’ Crime Intelligence division have, in the past 18 months, lost nearly all ability to live-monitor cellphones of SA’s most dangerous criminals, including cash-in-transit robbers, because of, among other things, a shortage of designated officers needed to sign off on critical approvals. ..
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